85. Words Written Separately.—Write the following as two words:
| all right | half dollar | police court |
| any time | half dozen | per cent |
| back yard | half nelson | pro tem |
| every time | mass meeting | some one |
| ex officio | no one | some way |
| fellow man | pay roll | squeeze play |
86. Compound Numbers.—Compound numbers between twenty and a hundred, when spelled out, should have a hyphen: as, twenty-one, forty-three.
87. Word Division.—When dividing a word at the end of a line, observe the following rules:
1. Do not break a syllable: as, cre-ditable, attemp-ted, for cred-itable, attempt-ed.
2. Do not divide a monosyllable: as, mob-bed, tho-ugh.
3. Do not separate a consonant from a vowel that affects its pronunciation: as, nec-essity for ne-cessity.
4. Do not divide a diphthong or separate two successive vowels, one of which is silent: as, bo-wing, pe-ople, for bow-ing, peo-ple.
5. Do not separate a syllable that has been added to a word by the addition of an s: as, financ-es.