Nor in writing ordinary fractions: e.g., one half, five eighths, etc.

But another class of fractions require the hyphen: e.g., twenty-fifth, twenty-two one-hundredths.

12. In compounds ending with holder or monger: e.g., stockholder, ironmonger.

13. In compounds beginning with eye: e.g., eyeglass, eyebrow, eyelash, eyewitness, etc.

14. In compounds with the word school: e.g., schoolmates, schoolmaster, etc. Exceptions: when made with a participle: e.g., school-teaching; or in combinations where separate words are more clear: e.g., school committee, school children, etc.

15. In compounds with deutero, electro, pseudo, sulpho, thermo, etc., unless the compound is unusual: e.g., electrotype, pseudonym, etc.

16. In compound adverbs: e.g., meantime, moreover, forever, everywhere, etc. But in phrases like after a while, in the mean time, for ever and ever, the words should be separated.

17. In words like anybody, anyhow, anything, anyway, anywhere, somebody, somehow, something, sometime, somewhat, somewhere. But any one and some one are written as separate words.

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DIVISION OF WORDS