Being a non-native English speaker, I was wondering which is most correct?
(1) Patient-tailored staging of xx carcinoma, or (2) Patient tailored staging of xx carcinoma?
It is for a scientific paper.
Thank you in advance.
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1Does this answer your question? Hyphenation in compound adjectives. Here, the novel(ish) compound adjective needs the hyphen to show that it is a single lexeme (this is not always the case) because (b) it is fairly novel / unusual, and hyphenation is usual if not universal, but (a) because here the reading of 'patient' as an individual lexeme is quite understandable, giving at least a garden-path situation. – Edwin Ashworth Mar 21 '20 at 14:52
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The first is correct. You want the two words to function as an adjective describing the 'staging', so you need to join them together with the hyphen.
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1Yes. Any pre-positioned adjectival collocation, involving two or more nouns should be hyphenated. At least that is the current style demanded in most UK universities, at this time. – WS2 Mar 21 '20 at 12:28
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