Radio Clare » adjectives http://radioclare.com Stories & Musings From A Duck Enthusiast Whose Life Is Stranger Than Fiction Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:55:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Time qualified or time-qualified? http://radioclare.com/2008/11/time-qualified-or-time-qualified/ http://radioclare.com/2008/11/time-qualified-or-time-qualified/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:25:49 +0000 Radio http://radioclare.com/?p=629 Babel explained this to me on Monday evening, and it was so helpful that I thought I’d paste it here so that I stood more chance of remembering it. I’m already doing woefully badly at remembering the difference between fewer and less, you and me v. you and I, but I am trying…

So, Babel objected to the fact that in my CV I had described myself as being time-qualified. It seems he didn’t like my hyphen. I was rather crushed by this, as I had inserted the hyphen especially for his benefit. They normally seem to turn him on :P But in this instance, my hyphen was superfluous to requirements :(

Apparently…

The rule is that a compound adjective that precedes a noun needs a hyphen: a time-qualified accountant.

When it is used after the noun (so following a copula, the verb ‘is’ for example) it doesn’t take one: the accountant is time qualified.

Hmmm. Well, first I’d heard of it and it seems rather illogical, but I have now noted it for future reference.

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