Because of this, usage differs and often depends on the individual choice of the writer rather than on a hard-and-fast rule. Hyphens are often considered a squishy part on language (we’ll discuss this further in Hyphens and Dashes). The open or spaced form consisting of newer combinations of usually longer words, such as distance learning, player piano, lawn tennis, etc.Compounds that contain articles, prepositions or conjunctions, such as rent-a-cop and mother-of-pearl, are also often hyphenated. This category includes compounds that contain suffixes, such as house-build( er) and single-mind( ed)( ness). The hyphenated form in which two or more words are connected by a hyphen.Examples are housewife, lawsuit, wallpaper, basketball, etc. Solid compounds most likely consist of short units that often have been established in the language for a long time. The solid or closed forms in which two usually moderately short words appear together as one.Short compounds may be written in three different ways:
Moreover, there are cases which some people/dictionaries will write one way while others write them another way. Until very recently we wrote (the) week’s end, which later became week-end and then our beloved weekend. Thus, tablecloth but table mat, wine glass but wineglassful or key ring but keyholder. In that regard, it’s necessary to avoid the over-simplification of saying that two single-syllable words are written together as one word. They may or may not be hyphenated, and they may be written with a space between words-especially if one of the words has more than one syllable, as in living room. A crow is a black bird, while a blackbird is a specific species of bird.Ĭompound nouns can be made up of two or more other words, but each compound has a single meaning.
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