I second Lynne's advice! One additional point: if listing multiple items that
have compound adjectives with the same noun being modified, it's customary to
use the noun only on the last one. E.g.:
The shop sells 2-, 4- and 10-gear bikes
Tori Muir
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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
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
Thanks!
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