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Should four week supply be hyphenated as four-week supply?
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Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
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Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
– Chappo
Dec 12 at 22:10
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Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
– Chappo
Dec 12 at 22:10
Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
– Chappo
Dec 12 at 22:10
Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
– Chappo
Dec 12 at 22:10
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A four-week supply. We may express quantities, sizes, etc, with a compound adjective, consisting of a quantity and a unit of measurement (in singular form), before a noun. It is hyphenated: a five-mile walk, a ten-ton truck, a three-hour wait. If the quantity has more than one word, all are hyphenated too, thus a two-thousand-page book, a five-hundred-thousand-dollar prize.
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Or perhaps you may say "Four weeks' worth of supply" Bypassing the need for hyphens but I doubt this is what you wanted.
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A four-week supply. We may express quantities, sizes, etc, with a compound adjective, consisting of a quantity and a unit of measurement (in singular form), before a noun. It is hyphenated: a five-mile walk, a ten-ton truck, a three-hour wait. If the quantity has more than one word, all are hyphenated too, thus a two-thousand-page book, a five-hundred-thousand-dollar prize.
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A four-week supply. We may express quantities, sizes, etc, with a compound adjective, consisting of a quantity and a unit of measurement (in singular form), before a noun. It is hyphenated: a five-mile walk, a ten-ton truck, a three-hour wait. If the quantity has more than one word, all are hyphenated too, thus a two-thousand-page book, a five-hundred-thousand-dollar prize.
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A four-week supply. We may express quantities, sizes, etc, with a compound adjective, consisting of a quantity and a unit of measurement (in singular form), before a noun. It is hyphenated: a five-mile walk, a ten-ton truck, a three-hour wait. If the quantity has more than one word, all are hyphenated too, thus a two-thousand-page book, a five-hundred-thousand-dollar prize.
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A four-week supply. We may express quantities, sizes, etc, with a compound adjective, consisting of a quantity and a unit of measurement (in singular form), before a noun. It is hyphenated: a five-mile walk, a ten-ton truck, a three-hour wait. If the quantity has more than one word, all are hyphenated too, thus a two-thousand-page book, a five-hundred-thousand-dollar prize.
Hyphens
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Or perhaps you may say "Four weeks' worth of supply" Bypassing the need for hyphens but I doubt this is what you wanted.
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Or perhaps you may say "Four weeks' worth of supply" Bypassing the need for hyphens but I doubt this is what you wanted.
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Or perhaps you may say "Four weeks' worth of supply" Bypassing the need for hyphens but I doubt this is what you wanted.
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Or perhaps you may say "Four weeks' worth of supply" Bypassing the need for hyphens but I doubt this is what you wanted.
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It should be supplies, not supply, in your version.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 13 at 5:20
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It should be supplies, not supply, in your version.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 13 at 5:20
It should be supplies, not supply, in your version.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 13 at 5:20
It should be supplies, not supply, in your version.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 13 at 5:20
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Yes, hyphenated (although non-hyphenated is increasingly common). As "four week" acts as an adjective (which is why week is singular even though preceded by a plural number), it should be hyphenated to avoid any ambiguity on how to parse "week". An alternative construction would be four weeks' supply, where no hyphen should be used.
– Chappo
Dec 12 at 22:10