• TheWitchofThornbury
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    1 month ago

    I got that one ‘wrong’ too. Ugly construction of question, not entirely correct, and very outdated. The rationale is to connect all the adjectives that describe the noun ‘train pass’. Which contains another adjective - ‘train’. So why didn’t they hyphenate ‘train’ and ‘pass’? I wouldn’t call their ‘correct’ choice as normal usage here in Aus. Maybe hyphenate ‘twenty-four’ cos this functions as a single word but the ‘hour’ surely doesn’t need it for clarity any more than ‘train-pass’ does. Bad question really.

    • Baku
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      1 month ago

      Twenty-four is what I went with too. I probably wouldn’t have known that if I took this a couple of years ago, I only learnt there’s “meant” to be a hyphen somewhere in there because I started using a grammar tool on my emails, and it always yells at me for not hyphenating enough