If I say "This removes block breaking particles." when talking about a very popular block game (the game causes particles to appear when you break blocks), do I use a dash between the two words? If so, which dash do I use?
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Welcome to ELU. Joining words to make a single unit of an idea always uses a hyphen, but whether you need to do that is not clear from quoting just two words. If the duplicate doesn't answer your question, please [edit] to include a complete sentence. This puts your question into review where it can be reopened. – Andrew Leach Apr 02 '23 at 09:13
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Thanks for editing, which shows the answer there does answer this. "A hyphen is used to join words in a compound construction", which is what you're making by using "block-breaking" as single [compound=multi-word] adjective. – Andrew Leach Apr 02 '23 at 10:12