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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Can I write this?

Can I write this? Is it perfectly ok?

Donna sat up in the couch and clutched her head, hungover.

  

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I would say "sat up on the couch". "hungover" looks wrong to me personally. Instinctively I feel that it should be written as two words ("hung over"), or hyphenated (especially if used attributively), but "hungover" seems to be quite widely used.

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  • I would say "sat up on the couch".
  • "hungover" looks wrong to me personally.
  • Instinctively I feel that it should be written as two words ("hung over"), or hyphenated (especially if used attributively), but "hungover" seems to be quite widely used.
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I would say "sat up on the couch". "hungover" looks wrong to me personally. Instinctively I feel that it should be written as two words ("hung over"), or hyphenated (especially if used attributively), but "hungover" seems to be quite widely used.

PS: I found someone else's comment about this at

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