Punctuation 101 by Jill Williamson

Punctuation 101 by Jill Williamson

Author:Jill Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: grammar, style manual, writers help
Publisher: Jill Williamson
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00


Hyphens with Compound Adjectives

A compound adjective is two or more words joined together to modify the same noun. Compound adjectives are read as a single word, and they should only be hyphenated when they come before the noun they modify.

So they took him and laid him out of the way on the drawing-room sofa with a drink at his elbow, and they went back to their dark business.1

It was a tiny, grubby-looking pub.2

He was around 5’10” with a muscular neck and a don’t-mess-with-me body.3

The werewolf was a cold-blooded killer.



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