I have never questioned hyphenating a double “e” though, simply because it always looks just plain wrong.Ĭould you please clarify this for me? I may be older, but am still learning. My understanding would be that the sounds would change to “rintergration”, with the “e” silent, and “i” to become long. A good example would be the explanation of “reintegration” above. In most cases, the vowel after the “re” is short, resulting in a change in sound. In school, to long ago, site reading was taught along with only the absolute basics of phonics (a poor decision in my opinion) My understanding of phonics is, admittedly, very limited. (a long vowel is the letter sounding like it does when saying the alphabet) I am sure it stems from the phonetic rule of when there is a double vowel, the first becomes silent making the second a long vowel. The combination of vowels in this instance still confuses me. Questioning myself each time, my conclusion has always been to add the hyphen if “re” preceded a vowel. (So thankful YOU came up in my Google search) I am currently writing a word document and, finally decided to look it up. I have always wondered about using a hyphen after “re”. The above article has still left me confused. A good example of confusion for me was the use of a comma after”and”. I’ll print out the letters again, and you can re sign them. I’ll print out the letters again, and you can re-sign them.ģC. I’ll print out the letters again, and you can resign them.ģB. Please call the restaurant to re serve a table.ĢB. Please call the restaurant to re-serve a table.ġC. Hyphens can also indicate when a word is cut off, either at the end of a line or because someone stops speaking abruptly. They clarify word meaning, form new ideas, and allow writers to use language in a cool, creative way. Please call the restaurant to reserve a table.ġB. Hyphens ( -) join related words together to create compound words. Re means again AND omitting the hyphen would cause confusion with another word so hyphenate.ġA. Re means again but would not cause confusion with another word so no hyphen. Re does mean again AND omitting the hyphen would have caused confusion with another word so hyphenate. Rule: Use the hyphen with the prefix re only when re means again AND omitting the hyphen would cause confusion with another word.Įxample: Will she recover from her illness?Įxample: I have re-covered the sofa twice. However, there is really only one rule that you need to learn to determine when to hyphenate with re. The prefix re can make hyphenating even more of a head-scratching experience.
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