Hyphen mania or hyphen-mania?
Posted by Editor on March 22, 2010 in Basic Grammar | ∞
Which is correct, “pre-approval” or “pre approval?” The sentence structure is “Pre-approval is required on…” The answer is: “pre-approval” is correct since the prefix “pre” can not stand as a word on its own. My Fowler’s Standard English Usage goes on for four pages about hyphenation. Basically the rule is that you should use a [...]
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