Timeline for Syntax of "two-letter word," "five-mile run," "three-hour play"?
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| S Aug 29, 2017 at 21:15 | history | rollback | Robbie Goodwin |
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| Aug 28, 2017 at 22:56 | history | suggested | MarianD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Provide the target link instead of the link for Google search and consequenty appropriately changing the surrounding text.
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| Apr 23, 2017 at 23:12 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Sorry to go on so long. I wasn't saying that, though I believe it's been tried… ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ or ‘life-and-soul-of-the-party person’ or ‘born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-each-hand sort of guy’ prolly prove any rule. I do see all the examples in your question as adjectival hyphenation, as CMS shows… ‘Nearly three-hour marathon’ is a fine example, the hyphen being meant to rule out ‘[nearly three]-hour’ - though outside grammar, I missed the difference. Try the same with the light green dress at sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/hyphenanddash/hyphen | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 22:29 | comment | added | herisson | Are you saying that any hyphenated series of words used before a noun is an adjective? I am not sure of that for the reason mentioned in the original post: we can hyphenate entire sentences and put them in this position. Are you comfortable with saying any sentence can be an "adjective" in English? | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | OK: That was the system's idea. Sorry, Mari-Lou. I got that impression from reading this and the previous thread from which it grew. Isn’t that what you did? If you'd been taught something - in this case, 'adjectival hyphenation' - 50 years ago, and used it professionally for a generation, then found that a group of respected experts in pretty-much the same field didn’t recognise the term, would you shrug your shoulders or try to find out that happened? How could anyone consider the term ‘adjectival hyphenation’ to be the explanation, when no-one recognises the term? | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 18:45 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Sorry, but I don't do chat if I have to. All the comments will have been copied over there so I might as well delete them here. They're off topic in any case. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 18:42 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | I don’t know who Monty is, either… except the only one who seemed not to find this new. I think I’m entitled to that surprise and I don’t know what he’s ‘another example’ of. I also don’t follow why you’re looking at up-votes or what you think I thought about Araucaria’s answer… | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 17:01 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | I'm still sorry and I still meant that, however clumsily I put it - I can't defend what I thought was an expression of pure surprise… you and presumably other readers took it another way, which proves I wasn't clear. I wasn't and I'm not trying to indicate 'you should have known that' or anything of the kind. I was trying - and clearly failing - to express total surprise that any one of the regular contributors here found the question in any way novel… and triply so that Google found no record of the topic, let alone any details. How would you have put that? | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 16:49 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Mari-Lou first I'm sorry and after that, I don't understand. What was upsetting about that above, please? I'd give you a longer apology if I understood. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 16:15 | history | answered | Robbie Goodwin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |