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Voynich Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Once-amazing


Nintendo has come up with an exciting new way to ruin Mario Kart’s once-amazing Battle Mode.
Could you tell me what this once- mean? It seems like expressing something like "It was amazing but now it's not". Thanks in advance.

Quoted from http://www.wired.com/2014/05/mario-kart-8-wii-u/
  

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voynich It seems like expressing something like "It was amazing but now it's not". Right.

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  • voynich It seems like expressing something like "It was amazing but now it's not".
  • Right.
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voynichIt seems like expressing something like "It was amazing but now it's not".
Right.
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So "The lake is once-beautiful. Wastewater from factories has ruined its beauty." Is this way to use "once-" correct?
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voynichSo "The lake is once-beautiful. Wastewater from factories has ruined its beauty." Is this way to use "once-" correct?
No, such hyphenated combinations are necessary only when the words appear before a noun to modify it.

the once-beautiful lake
The lake was once beautiful.
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