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Do You Hyphenate Sight Reading?

James H. Sterling • • 7 min read
Do You Hyphenate Sight Reading?

Hyphens in Compound Adjectives
A compound adjective has two or more words acting as a single modifier—for example, a warm-up room. It's not an up room that is also warm, so the hyphen tells us to read the two words as one. ... In these examples, "warm up" and "sight reading" aren't adjectives, so we don't need hyphens.

Does sight-reading have a hyphen?

Sight-read vs Sight read

Regardless of the noun and verb hyphenation: Its use as a compound modifier should always be hyphenated. For example, it should be "sight-reading skills" not "sight reading skills." However, even this isn't even followed consistently in the literature.

Is sight read one word?

Word forms: sight-reads, sight-readingpronunciation note: The form sight-read is used in the present tense, where it is pronounced (saɪt rid ), and is the past tense and past participle, pronounced (saɪt rɛd ).

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