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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Proper Adjectives
My confusion (or realization of my own ignorance) arose out of an email in which I was attempting to describe my NCAA March Madness loss. My "friends" were taking pleasure in witnessing a promising first and second round turn to a crumbling defeat. I wanted to explain that my defeat was like Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare.
Here is the sentence:
Jay, I am glad to see that, like it is for children, my Tortoise-and-the-Hare-like defeat was a source of entertainment for you and everyone else.
How does one properly punctuate the adverb <tortoise-and-the-Hair-like>?
Here is the sentence:
Jay, I am glad to see that, like it is for children, my Tortoise-and-the-Hare-like defeat was a source of entertainment for you and everyone else.
How does one properly punctuate the adverb <tortoise-and-the-Hair-like>?
Top answer
the creation of adverbs in such a way is pretty tricky. Personally, I hyphenate like you have done here, but that may not be correct. Another way to do it would be with quotes, my "Tortoise and the Hare"-like defeat
- the creation of adverbs in such a way is pretty tricky.
- Personally, I hyphenate like you have done here, but that may not be correct.
- Another way to do it would be with quotes, my "Tortoise and the Hare"-like defeat
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the creation of adverbs in such a way is pretty tricky.
Personally, I hyphenate like you have done here, but that may not be correct.
Another way to do it would be with quotes,
my "Tortoise and the Hare"-like defeat
Personally, I hyphenate like you have done here, but that may not be correct.
Another way to do it would be with quotes,
my "Tortoise and the Hare"-like defeat
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AnonymousHow does one properly punctuate theAs you have done.adverbadjective "tortoise-and-the-Hair-like"?
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