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Hyphenated Compound Adjectives

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Tags: adjectival compounds, cartoon, comic, compounds, humor, humour, hyphens, punctuation, spelling

Sometimes you just need a hyphen. You really do. Here’s proof: He was a big-city worker, a cold-case officer with slicked-back hair. is very different from He was a big city worker, a cold case officer with slicked back hair. In the first case we have an urbanite with a sleek coiffure who works on cold […]

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