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*Brown, R (2006). "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51(78).
*Miller, E (2005). ''The Sun'', Academic Press.
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The Sun is pretty big,[1] but the Moon is not so big.[2] The Sun is also quite hot.[3]
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- Brown, R (2006). "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78).
- Miller, E (2005). The Sun, Academic Press.
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General arguments
editHyphenation sources
editReferences - see Talk: Brag (card game)
"English Grammar Rules: ADVANCED English Grammar: Compound Adjectives". www.grammar.cl. Retrieved 23 February 2018. Compound Adjectives - When to put the hyphen between adjectives
"What Are Hyphens? (with Examples)". www.grammar-monster.com. Retrieved 23 February 2018. A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark
Rabinovitch, Simon (September 21, 2007). "Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on". www.reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved February 23, 2018. bout 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. {{cite web}}
: Empty citation (help): Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
Gawn, Peter (1974). "The Use of the Hyphen in Compound Modifiers". www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca. Retrieved 23 February 2018. the infinite variety of modern English usage in the matter defies description
The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). University of Chicago Press. 2010. section 7.80. ISBN 978-0-226-10420-1. Where no ambiguity could result, as in public welfare administration or graduate student housing, hyphenation is unnecessary
The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). University of Chicago Press. 2010. section 7.85. ISBN 978-0-226-10420-1. In general, Chicago prefers a spare hyphenation style: if no suitable example or analogy can be found either in this section or in the dictionary, hyphenate only if doing so will aid readability
"All About Nouns: Common & Proper Nouns". www.grammarteam.wordpress.com. Retrieved 24 February 2018. All nouns are either common or proper
"Proper Nouns: What is a Proper Noun". www.gingersoftware.com. Retrieved 24 February 2018. Every noun can be further classified as either common or proper
"Hyphens". en.wiki.x.io. Retrieved 23 February 2018. But never insert a hyphen into a proper name (Middle Eastern cuisine, not Middle-Eastern cuisine).