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1 AP on Hyphenated Prefixes
Always use a hyphen with “all-”: all-knowing, all-seeing, all-caring Rushbo Hyphenate “anti-” words with some exceptions: see Stylebook for list “Co-” is generally hyphenated for job titles, no hyphen for most of rest. Stylebook lists exceptions. “Ex” is hyphenated when it means “former,” as in ex-president. No hyphen when it’s part of a verb.

2 More AP Hyphens “In” takes no hyphen if it means “not”: intolerable. Takes hyphen in compound adjectives: in-depth. Always a hyphen if used as a suffix: break-in. “Post-” A jumble of exceptions. Postwar, post-mortem. Look it up. “Pro-” Hyphenate only when it means showing support: pro-war, profile. “Re” is hyphenated when the next letter is an “e”. See Stylebook for other rules.

3 AP on Numbers Don’t start sentences with big numbers; spell them out if you must. In proper names, use what they use. Spell out one-nine, then use numbers. Use 1st, 2nd, etc. in forming titles. Dates never take suffixes: Right: Dec. 2 Wrong: Dec. 2nd

4 More AP Numbers Don’t use more than two decimal points in text unless there’s a special reason. For money, the whole number up to 999,999, then words and numbers: 999,999 1 million 1.36 million Instead of a “-” minus sign, use “minus”.

5 Yet More AP Numbers U.S. Highway 1, state road FM2222, Interstate Highway 35. Use numbers when measuring dimension, formulas and speeds. Folo standard rule with distances. The tornado’s path was 2 miles wide. The group drove five miles to safety. 6.5 percent; 0.5 percent.

6 It Never Stops! Express ratios this way: a 2-1 ratio; the ratio was 2-to-1. (Note hyphens.) Use figures exclusively for scores, sizes, telephone numbers, weights. All temps are figures except for zero. All times are figures except noon and midnight: 10:30 a.m., noon. Years are always figures, and a year can start a sentence (though that sucks).


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