More from Bryan Garner on hyphenating phrasal adjectives. The first installment appeared last week. Helpful, helpful, helpful.
Phrasal adjectives are why I browse in used-book stores.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
More on hyphenating phrasal adjectives
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"...phrasal-hyphenated adjectives"
ReplyDeletethought Miss Easy "easy-to-miss"
will need a line as a little dash
that prose might not go amiss.
I miss Miss Easy easily
adding verbs verbally rhymed,
as easy-to-miss punctuates
with confusion's pump well-primed.
The hyphen ate my home-work...
Best-wished wishes....
And the same to you. :)
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