Theodore Bernstein, John Trimble, R.W. Burchfield, Patricia T. O'Conner, and Bill Walsh also advise following a bright - line rule for hyphenating
most phrasal adjectives because, as Garner summarizes, the hyphens make reading faster and easier:
The
phrasal verbs listed on this website are those that, in the opinion of the webmaster, are among the
most useful for English learners to learn first.