Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Beefing over how we use hyphens and adverbs

The beef had been aged dry for 30 days, and it changed my life. Not the way you’re thinking. I didn’t eat the life-changing meat. I just read about it in an article I was editing — and my relationship ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Looking at ‘one word, two words or hyphenated’ issue

Health care, healthcare or health-care? Make up, makeup or make-up? Water ski, water-ski or waterski? Cell phone, cellphone or cell-phone? A lot of questions posed in this column elicit the answer: ...
BBC

Compound adjectives

English in a Minute: 4 ways to use the word 'material' Word stress English in a Minute: 3 ways to use 'general' Job suffixes English in a Minute: 3 ways to use 'quality' Contractions English in a ...
BBC

Learning English

Carlos Cajina from Nicaragua asks: Compound adjectives can be: 1. Joined by a hyphen 2. Appear as a single word 3. Appear as two separate words. Is there a rule - or set of rules - to know when to use ...
BBC

Compound adjectives

English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 'resource' Word stress English in a Minute: Phrases with 'look' Job suffixes English in a Minute: Phrases with 'home' 6 October 2025 7 minutes Available for ...
The New York Times

Compound Adjectives in Poetry.

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