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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (730)1/19/1998 7:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (3) of 4710
 
>I share your enthusiam for self improvement <
Which is the better form: "self improvement" or "self-improvement"? I'm not quite clear on the rules for adding or omitting the hyphen. I see a lot of unhyphenated compound terms. It arouses my inner Knight of the Order of the Red Pencil, but I don't know if it should.
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