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Rule "missing hyphen in '2 person meeting'"

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Description: missing hyphen in '2 person meeting'
Message: When '\3-\4' is used as a modifier, it is usually spelled with a hyphen.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/hyphen/#hyphenated-numbers-and-fractions-numerals
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The 10 person meeting took more than 2 hours.
    Correction suggestion: 10-person meeting
  • Anyone on a Major League team's forty man roster.
    Correction suggestion: forty-man roster
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder.
  • There's one person in particular I'd like to talk to.
  • The winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: PERSON_HYPHEN [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-05-01 22:33:07 +0200)