Hyphenating Compounds After a Noun

If your company has customer-friendly policies, would you say those policies are customer friendly or customer-friendly? The rules on modifying compound adjectives before a noun are pretty clear: use the hyphen anytime it aids comprehension. But when that same compound comes after the noun, especially when a verb intercedes, too, the rules get fuzzy. Here are some good guidelines.

 

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Tags: COMPOUND MODIFIER, COPY EDITING, GRAMMAR, hyphenation

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