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Prefixes (words formed with prefixes are almost always single words, no hyphen), e.g., antebellum,  
Prefixes (words formed with prefixes are almost always single words, no hyphen), e.g., antebellum,  
antihero (but anti-inflammatory), bivalent, bioecology, coequal (but co-opt and co-worker), counterclockwise, cyberspace, extramural (but extra-administrative), hyperactive, infrastructure, interfaith, intramural (intra-arterial), macroeconomics, megamall, metalanguage, microeconomics, midthirties (but mid-July, the mid-1990s, and mid-twentieth century history), minivan, multiauthor (but multi-institutional), neonate, nonviolent, overmagnified, postdoctoral and postmodernism (but post-Vietnam), premodern (but Pre-Raphaelite), proindustrial (but pro-Canadian), protolanguage, pseudotechnocrat, reunify (but re-cover as distinct from recover), semiopaque, socioeconomic and sociocultural, subzero, superannuated, supranational, transcontinental, ultrasophisticated, unfunded, and underemployed.
antihero (but anti-inflammatory), bivalent, bioecology, coequal (but co-opt and co-worker), counterclockwise, cyberspace, extramural (but extra-administrative), hyperactive, infrastructure, interfaith, intramural (intra-arterial), macroeconomics, megamall, metalanguage, microeconomics, midthirties (but mid-July, the mid-1990s, and mid-twentieth century history), minivan, multiauthor (but multi-institutional), neonate, nonviolent, overmagnified, postdoctoral and postmodernism (but post-Vietnam), premodern (but Pre-Raphaelite), proindustrial (but pro-Canadian), protolanguage, pseudotechnocrat, reunify (but re-cover as distinct from recover), semiopaque, socioeconomic and sociocultural, subzero, superannuated, supranational, transcontinental, ultrasophisticated, unfunded, and underemployed.
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Latest revision as of 11:31, 25 May 2022

Adjective + noun [or participle], e.g., the neighborhood is middle class, and he is tight lipped

Adverbs ending in –ly + participle or adjective, e.g., highly paid and utterly useless

Colors, except black-and-white (before a noun), e.g., greenish blue and red and green dress

Gerund + Noun, e.g., running shoes

Noun + gerund, e.g., decision making

Noun + noun, single function (noun form), e.g., student nurse and master builder

Noun + participle (noun form), e.g., I am software challenged

Number + abbreviation + noun, e.g., a 3 ft. distance

Number + percentage (as a noun or adjective), e.g., 30 percent and a 50 percent raise

Prefixes (words formed with prefixes are almost always single words, no hyphen), e.g., antebellum, antihero (but anti-inflammatory), bivalent, bioecology, coequal (but co-opt and co-worker), counterclockwise, cyberspace, extramural (but extra-administrative), hyperactive, infrastructure, interfaith, intramural (intra-arterial), macroeconomics, megamall, metalanguage, microeconomics, midthirties (but mid-July, the mid-1990s, and mid-twentieth century history), minivan, multiauthor (but multi-institutional), neonate, nonviolent, overmagnified, postdoctoral and postmodernism (but post-Vietnam), premodern (but Pre-Raphaelite), proindustrial (but pro-Canadian), protolanguage, pseudotechnocrat, reunify (but re-cover as distinct from recover), semiopaque, socioeconomic and sociocultural, subzero, superannuated, supranational, transcontinental, ultrasophisticated, unfunded, and underemployed.