Doug,
Your examples show compound adjectives that modify "bike". Most of
them should be hyphenated. The exception is "multi-gear". "Multi" is a
prefix rather than a word by itself so "multigear" does not require a
hyphen.
You didn't ask, but as far as spelling out the number of gears as
opposed to using Arabic numerals, I would probably use the words rather
than numerals, depending on context. If you are writing something like a
catalog for a bicycle shop or the assembly directions for a new bicycle,
I would probably follow existing conventions (such as the previous
version of the catalog). If different manufacturers use different
conventions, I'd probably use each manufacturer's names. If company A
sells a 12-gear bike and company B sells a twelve-gear bike, a purchaser
may have trouble finding information on each unless a store's catalog
identifies each product the way its manufacturer does.
--Lynne
On 8/20/2020 11:39 AM, Doug wrote:
I've seen these used both ways, so I'd like some fresh input: which of the
following are correct, and why?
single gear bike
four gear bike
ten gear bike
12-gear bike
20-gear bike
multi-gear bike
fixed gear bike
--
Lynne A. Price
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