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Subject:Which form is correct? From:JBergen <jbergen -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 25 Jul 1994 00:51:01 -0400
I have a question of style. I've looked at the Chicago Manual of Style,
Elements of Style (Strunk& White), Elements of Grammar (Shertzer), and
numerous technical writing textbooks, but none answer this burning
question:
lower-right corner
or
lower right corner
Usually the style guides recommend hyphenating if the first adjective
modifies the second adjective, but in this case I could make the case that
both "lower" and "right" modify "corner" --- I may just reword completely
to avoid the problem, but I'd like to know what other technical writers
would use.
