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"multiple-choice" or "multiple choice"

 
 
Reply Wed 7 Oct, 2009 04:59 am
Palmiere is most appreciative of ActiVotes, egg-shaped grey and orange hand-held devices that allow students to anonymously respond to multiple choice questions by clicking one of six letter choices.

Do you prefer "multiple-choice" or "multiple choice", "six-letter"or "six letter" here?

Thank you.
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Reply Wed 7 Oct, 2009 06:19 am
@jinmin1988,
"multiple-choice" or "multiple choice" is a matter of preference*; "six-letter"or "six letter" is not. In the second case the hyphen would be wrong.

*I prefer the hyphenated form.
jinmin1988
 
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Reply Wed 7 Oct, 2009 06:36 am
@contrex,
So do I.
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yapishkahilt
 
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Reply Mon 6 Mar, 2017 10:34 pm
@jinmin1988,
While both ways of writing the phrase may technically be permitted, the best way is "multiple-choice questions." Hyphens should be used with compound modifiers, and "multiple-choice" is such a modifier here. Using a hyphen makes it clear that the writer intends to refer to questions of the multiple-choice variety, and not a multitude of "choice questions," a reading that is possible when it is written without a hyphen as "multiple choice questions."
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