Which is why american style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen There seem to be three terms used by experts in the field However, the other two seem to be more commonly used in that context. Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective adjective1 adjective2 Leaving non stranded doesn't work either as it is a bound morpheme, a prefix not a word (in english) I'd use the two hyphens.
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