Collins Spanish Dictionary 8th edition published in 2005 Â© William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1971, 1988 Â© HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005.ollins Spanish Dictionary 8th edition published in 2005 Â© William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1971, 1988 Â© HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005.
If you read enough, you develop a sort of sixth sense that tells you that most pros would have put a hyphen in all-time.. That's because punctuation rules say to use a hyphen to join two words that together modify a third word any time it can aid comprehension and readability. That's a tiny matter, of course. But little things add up. Here's another: The foreclosure process contains 3 stages.. This sentence is technically fine.
A hyphen (- ) is used primarily to join two or more words to form a new, compound word or to provide clarity when using certain affixes (such as prefixes). Hyphens also have certain technical uses, such as indicating a range of numbers or combining multiple sets of numbers together into a single unit (as is often done with telephone numbers). Because a hyphen unites multiple things into a single element, we do not put spaces on either side of it (except in one specific circumstance known as a hanging hyphen, which weâll discuss later on).