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- Using non- to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language Usage . . .
Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative British publishers are much more apt to hyphenate all non-compounds no matter the following latter, so non-believer and non-native Just don’t hyphenate nonchalant :)
- No, not, and non - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives Consequently there are lots of exceptions to the general rules below Non- is not a word, but a part of another word, usually a descriptive adjective:
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
"Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather than the opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-)
- Use of the prefix non- on compound words [duplicate]
Adding non-in front of a compound adjective can make it ambiguous; I would recommend only doing it if it's clearly non-ambiguous (like the first examples below) There are some compound adjectives that sound perfectly fine if you add non-in front of them: non-English-speaking customers, non-nuclear-powered submarines
- hyphenation - Is the use of a hyphen between non and an adjective . . .
Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen British rules differ, and the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature
- no not - Non-significant or not significant variable? - English . . .
It depends on the position of the adjective: You have to say "this is a non-significant variable," but you can say "this variable is not significant" or " non-significant" (There may be a better technical term; if there is, hopefully somebody will give it in an answer ) –
- american english - Non in front of hyphenated adjective - English . . .
non-English-speaking countries not-to-be-forgotten moments Since your usage is of the latter form (a normally hyphenated element in front of a hyphenated compound adjective), the use of multiple hyphens is therefore recommended: He was the only non-red-haired person in his entire family
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
Then the single-statement version was coined But now, most people recognise (and, I'd say, use) the slightly longer expression which is now equally 'a proverb' Not the original, but hardly fake If fake were taken to be a synonym of 'non-original', wouldn't all of Late Modern English (our present-day language) be 'fake'? –
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