Nonverbis
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- Jun 4, 2021
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
The text is from Upstream proficiency by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley.
What troubles me is that I absolutely cannot understand when a compound word is written with a hiphen, when without one, and when we use just two separate words. Could you comment on this case: why the text gives one variant, whereas the dictionary gives another. And what is the rule?
What troubles me is that I absolutely cannot understand when a compound word is written with a hiphen, when without one, and when we use just two separate words. Could you comment on this case: why the text gives one variant, whereas the dictionary gives another. And what is the rule?