Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » low-cost or low cost http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Hyphenation — low cost or low-cost? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/hyphenation-low-cost-or-low-cost/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/hyphenation-low-cost-or-low-cost/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:10:42 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/hyphenation-low-cost-or-low-cost/ Which is correct?
Cluster computing can also be used as a relatively______ form of parallel processing.
a. low cost
b. low-cost


Answer: b

Explanation:
Hyphenate such terms when they serve as adjectives, as low-cost does here to modify form.

If cost is serving as a noun, we don’t hyphenate. For example: Cluster computing is sometimes used for parallel processing because of its relatively low cost.

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