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Chapter 6.
6.26.
Do not use a hyphen in a unit modifier enclosed in quotation marks unless it is normally a hyphenated term, but quotation marks are not to be used in lieu of a hyphen.
- "blue sky" law
- "good neighbor" policy
- "tie-in" sale
- but
- right-to-work law
- line-item veto
6.27.
Print combination color terms as separate words, but use a hyphen when such color terms are unit modifiers.
- bluish green
- dark green
- orange red
- bluish-green feathers
- iron-gray sink
- silver-gray body
6.28.
Do not use a hyphen between independent adjectives preceding a noun.
- big gray cat
- a fine old southern gentleman
Prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms
6.29.
Print solid combining forms and prefixes, except as indicated elsewhere.
- afterbirth
- Anglomania
- antedate
- antislavery
- biweekly
- bylaw
- circumnavigation
- cisalpine
- cooperate
- contraposition
- countercase
- deenergize
- demitasse
- excommunicate
- extracurricular
- foretell
- heroicomic
- hypersensitive
- hypoacid
- inbound
- infrared
- interview
- intraspinal
- introvert
- isometric
- macroanalysis
- mesothorax
- metagenesis
- microphone
- misstate
- monogram
- multicolor
- neophyte
- nonneutral
- offset
- outbake
- overactive
- pancosmic
- paracentric
- particoated
- peripatetic
- planoconvex
- polynodal
- postscript
- preexist
- proconsul
- pseudoscholastic
- reenact
- retrospect
- semiofficial
- stepfather
- subsecretary
- supermarket
- thermocouple
- transonic
- transship
- tricolor
- ultraviolet
- unnecessary
- underflow
