when do you use hyphenated words
Here, âwellâ is not an adjective. (As an adjective, applied to âwriterâ, it would mean that the writer is in good health!) It is an adverb and, as such, a completely separate entity. Therefore no hyphen is needed. Indeed I would consider it wrong to put a hyphen. A hyphen should only be used in adverb-adjective combinations where the adverb can also double as an adjective. The obvious example is âbest known solutionâ/âbest-known solutionâ.