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

-ing and -ed adjectives

English in a Minute: 3 ways to use 'nice' Lexical sets English in a Minute: How to use the word 'during' Compound adjectives English in a Minute: 4 ways to use the word 'material' Word stress English ...
Reader's Digest

12 Separate Words Everyone Combines into One—But Shouldn’t

Some words are said together so often that many people think they're a single word—but they're not. Or at least not all of the time. The confusing business of compound words, explained. If you spend a ...