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Hyphens with Common Prefixes, Part 1
 Should we use a hyphen with a common prefix such as non or un? For example, is it non-alcoholic beverages or nonalcoholic beverages?
Generally, with common prefixes, you do not need to use a hyphen. Therefore, the correct answer is nonalcoholic beverages.
Examples:
uninviting
uninterested
noncompetitive
preexisting
pretest
posttest
Exception: When adding the common prefix will create a double i or double a, use a hyphen.
Examples:
ultra-ambitious
semi-invalid
Exception: When common prefixes are attached to hyphenated compounds, they take hyphens too.
Example:
non-iron-bearing sulphides
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Wordplay
 Here are some complicated ways of saying simple old
adages. Can you decipher them?
1. Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
2. Neophyte's serendipity.
3. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small,
green, biophytic plant.
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1. Dead men tell no tales. / 2. Beginner's luck / 3. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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