Why is this an error.
The story chronicles Sarah's tough relationship with Jason
and her affair with the opposite in everyway – love interest Freddy.
(why can't you have (love interest Freddy with the en dash: what's the problem !)
It's 'awkward' but why is it an error.
What's wrong with this sentence ! There was a comma after and
It means 'opposites'. The affair is 'different: the phrase is part of a main sentence but the original question related only to the en dash and it's usage.
It looks fine to me and you can have verbless sentences anyway. As your writing it without 'having time' to plan it out. You find you want to add : love interest before Freddy. But it doesn't go without the dash.
e.g. opposite in everyway Freddy and Her love interest and opposite in everyway Freddy: work without punctuation.
I guess you could have: opposite in everway,love interest, Freddy.
Top answer
The phrase 'love interest Freddy' makes no sense tagged on to the end of the sentence with a dash. A correct way to write this would be eg The story chronicles Sarah's tough relationship with Jason and her affair with the opposite-in-every-way love interest, Freddy. opposite-in-every-way is 4 words strung together with hyphens to make a casual adjective.
- The phrase 'love interest Freddy' makes no sense tagged on to the end of the sentence with a dash.
- A correct way to write this would be eg The story chronicles Sarah's tough relationship with Jason and her affair with the opposite-in-every-way love interest, Freddy.
- opposite-in-every-way is 4 words strung together with hyphens to make a casual adjective.
- We commonly do this in speech or very casual writing.
- The words love interest and Freddy are in apposition.
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The phrase 'love interest Freddy' makes no sense tagged on to the end of the sentence with a dash.
A correct way to write this would be eg The story chronicles Sarah's tough relationship with Jason and her affair with the opposite-in-every-way love interest, Freddy.
opposite-in-every-way is 4 words strung together with hyphens to make a casual adjective.
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