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Does "non-" prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word?
If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by attaching "non-" it se...
Using "non-" to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language & Usage ...
At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto.
They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically, only the no version is likely to be used.
If you do put a non- in front of a compound adjective, you should use two hyphens (or more, if needed): in your example, it should be non-finitely-generated groups.
But should you put non- in front of a compound adjective in the first place?
This really depends on the example.
Adding non- in front of a compound adjective can make it ambiguous; I would recommend only doing it if it's clearly ...
Is the hyphen that we often see in words such as "non-zero", "non-trivial", etc.
optional?
In case the answer is negative, is there any rule of thumb on which one may rely in order to recall whe...
compounds - Dash after the prefix "non" - English Language & Usage ...
Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin.
Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen.
British rules differ, and the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature.
In any case, an isolated "non" is definitely wrong, in any flavo [u]r of the English language.
