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Re: hyphenating a phrase using "or"

Is one a yellow floor and the other a red-hued floor?
Or
a yellow-hued floor and a red-hued floor?

Re: hyphenating a phrase using "or"

The context implies multiple floors, and each one could be either yellow or red.

Re: hyphenating a phrase using "or"

It is perfectly acceptable in coordinations like this where an element follows only one of the coordinates to hyphenate it with the adjoining coordinate only. So "yellow or red-hued floors" is fine.

It is no different to "Would you prefer the strawberry or vanilla-flavoured ice-cream?

There are other ways of saying it, though they tend to be a bit pedantic, e.g. "Would you prefer the strawberry-flavoured ice-cream or the vanilla-flavoured ice cream"?


PaulM

Re: hyphenating a phrase using "or"

Thank you - that helps