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Tip #308:  Hyphens can function to replace
the preposition “to.”

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Tip #308:  Hyphens can function to replace the preposition “to.”  For example: use 0-100 instead of 0 to 100.  They can also function to form compound words such as able-bodied, self-contained.  And they are used to form compound numbers from  twenty-one  to ninety-nine and fractions when they are written out.  However, if you are in doubt whether or not to use the hyphen, check your dictionary.

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Add hyphens when needed to the following:

  1. The third, fourth, and fifth floor rooms have been painted.
  2. George is anti everything.
  3. Both the president elect and the commissioner elect were present.
  4. We live the post Sputnik time period.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

More books on business writing and other business subjects  (available from Amazon.com). 

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