Sentences with phrase «use hyphens»

Plenty of people use hyphens on a regular basis, but when it comes to en and em dashes, they're clueless.

It's becoming more fashionable not to use hyphens for common prefixes like «pre -» or «cyber -», and meld them into one word, e.g. Notorious B.I.G. was the preeminent rapper of the late»90s.

Headline is a great example how we don't use hyphens enough these days: «Physics defying fun» means something quite different from «Physics - defying fun»!

The way to use hyphens and underscores to improve your SEO is as follows.

Many business owners can get a reasonable facsimile of their name by adding prefixes and suffixes like «e,» «i,» «cyber,» «online,» and «the» or using hyphens.

Heck, you can't even say «s - ex» here without using a hyphen which is pathetic.

Each player will get a rating and a one - word summary for the season (I'm giving myself license to use a hyphen if necessary!).

The property name and value is concatenated into a single string using a hyphen - minus character (U +002 D) as separator.

Follow Grammar Girl if you still don't know how to use a hyphen or the difference between active and passive voice.

«Now my collections sort to the top again,» he wrote, «and life is good... now I'm using the hyphen plus a space, which gives them a sort of bullet - list look.»

I just loaded in a book on my H2O a couple days ago from Kindle because I was sick of reading it on the Voyage being forced to use spindly fonts, and the awkward spacing between words is just as annoying (Kindles really need to start using hyphens but that's probably never going to happen either).

Using hyphens to best effect will aid reading speed and comprehension, and keep reader focus locked tight.

Products should be referred to as either «ENERGY STAR certified» or «ENERGY STAR qualified» without using a hyphen;

Not exact matches

Fahlman says his smiley face, made from a colon, hyphen, and end parenthesis, spread from CMU to other schools, using the computer networks of the early 1980s.

You should be saying «deep - seated,» and it is usually used with a hyphen.

Remember, hyphens are used to compound words such as «pick - em - up - truck» or «monster - in - law.»

Encourage him to use a calculator, if you have one handy (perhaps on your phone) so that he becomes familiar with the process and the minus sign that looks like a hyphen.

Hyphens are used as word separators: «Next - Scientist - rocks» will be understood by Google as «Next Scientist rocks»

This Power Point (with printable resources within) focuses simply on other situations when hyphens might be used.

Provides reading phase: opportunity to look in depth how poets: - Manipulate grammatical structures for deliberate effect - Use precise noun and verb choices to create atmosphere - Use High Level punctuation at the KS2 Greater Depth Standard for deliberate effect (Hyphens, dashes, commas to separate clauses and semi colon.)

But whatever syntax is chosen (with / or without the hyphen) doesn't really matter, as long as it is used consistently.

A good deal of this discussion seems to be focused around the use of (or not) the hyphen between «e» and «learning» (Guri - Rosenblit & Gros, 2011).

Ford says it used a font called «bold leadership» and — we cracked up over this — removed the hyphen between F and 150, which «adds to the message of efficiency.»

Hyphens are used to hyphenate words and separate phone numbers.

In a manuscript being prepared for publication, it also includes checking that you are using things like em - dashes, en - dashes and hyphens in the correct professional way.

We all know that the hyphen -LRB--) is used to hy - phen - ate, and we all know that the short line is used to do this, so it should be easy to remember that the short line is a hyphen and the long line is a dash.

When reading e-books, we sometimes see the hyphen used in place of the dash.

Also, there are no hyphens, yet they use justified margins: a poor design decision for print interiors.

In the nowadays American English, hyphen is not as significant as it used to be.

Update: You can make text layout on Kindle ebooks look even better by adding hyphens using a plugin for Calibre and it only takes a few extra seconds.

Note that hyphens, i.e. Your-Name.com, are used less often and can be harder to remember.

Haven't seen the liberal use of hyphens like this before, although the «josh - u-a» is not new.

Using white text on a white background Locating text behind an image Using CSS to position text off - screen Setting the font size to 0 Hiding a link by only linking one small character — for example, a hyphen in the middle of a paragraph

KJ: Isolated use of a hyphen won't automatically put a website into spam territory.

The first use of scare quotes (with a hyphen) I could find was from a 1946 nonfiction book.

The first use of the term scare quotes (without a hyphen) dates back to at least 1956, when it was used by a University of Cambridge professor in a philosophical essay.

So [0 - 9][0 - 9][0 - 9]- [0 - 9][0 - 9][0 - 9]- [0 - 9][0 - 9][0 - 9][0 - 9] matches our phone number and any other phone number making use of hyphens as separators.

If you're inconsistent in capitalization, or use of punctuation, use of hyphens, inconsistent in the spelling of a particular term, Perfect It will pick that up.

One mark of novice legal writing is the haphazard use of three related punctuation marks: the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash.

Do - use a naming convention across all your attachments that includes your name, hyphens or underscores, the position you're targeting, and the word resume or cover letter.

Use a naming convention across all your attachments that includes your name, hyphens or underscores, the position you're targeting, and the word resume or cover letter:

You can use an asterisks, ampersand, dollar sign, or a hyphen.

Errors that I've seen all too often include words glued together (brought onboard instead of brought on board), missing hyphens (low performing instead of low - performing), or the use of extra hyphens to create a descriptor that makes no sense (team - leader vs. team leader).

Keep in mind that although E-mail user names can include almost any kind of punctuation, domain names can use only a hyphen: «-».

It could be made clearer, the court allowed, with the use of a hyphen in the compound adjective «property - specific.»

Spam sites often use several hyphens in domains, and your site could be penalized.

If a creditor uses the same loan identification number on several revised Loan Estimates to the consumer, but adds after such number a hyphen and a number to denote the number of revised Loan Estimates in sequence, the creditor must disclose the loan identification number before such hyphen on the Closing Disclosure to identify the transaction as the same for which the initial and revised Loan Estimates were provided.