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![]() ![]() If both versions are current, the hyphenated form is usually the more formal one. Such nouns are often hyphenated, at least early in their history (it used to be common to write “make-up exam,” and that is still fine) but there is a strong tendency for such hyphenated forms to evolve into single words. What kind of exam was it? A makeup exam.) Phrasal verbs make up a huge category of expressions in English that careless users often misspell by substituting one-word noun forms for the standard two-word phrasal verb for instance: it would have been a mistake for me to have written “Phrasal verbs makeup a huge category.” It is fine to write “I didn’t want to put on my makeup” (“makeup” is a noun) or “I had to take the makeup exam.” (In this example “makeup” is a noun acting like an adjective modifying another noun-“exam”.
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