My friend showed it. He typed all-alone, MS word showed grammatical error (green line). He right clicked and chaged it to all alone as suggested by MS-word. MS Word still showing green line. Again he right clicked and this time it was showing all-alone
thats pretty funny. I typed "The man was all-alone." in 97 and it recommended all alone. i said ok change it and it said no change that to all-alone. [ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: Randall Twede ]
By typing The man was all-alone. The man was all alone. you can see that each version gets flagged independently of the other. Each recommends the other version as the improvement. So nobody's cross-checked that recommended improvements don't fail some other test. Deep in the settings deselect "Hyphenated and compound words" and the problem goes away.
By the way, what means "all-alone"? Pretty much the same as "alone", but with a little more emphasis. To be fair, the hyphenated form here just looks wrong to me. But I suppose it may be acceptable to others somewhere.
Right. I tried to come up with a decent sentence that used the hyphenated version and was not very successful. Unless you admit further compounding: What's this all-alone-in-your-apartment-eating-aspirin business about? (But that could be seen as a shameless attempt at convergence.)
Originally posted by Jim Yingst: By the way, what means "all-alone"? Pretty much the same as "alone", but with a little more emphasis. To be fair, the hyphenated form here just looks wrong to me. But I suppose it may be acceptable to others somewhere.
is that the saem as little kids saying: "all awone"?
I dont see any difference in "all-alone" and all alone. But I will prefer all-alone coz it makes it look like one single word, which I want it to be. Studied british english, using US english. So much confusion