Timeline for Can the past tense be used as an adjective such as in 'plastic bottled drinks' or 'glass bottomed boat'?
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| Jan 30, 2022 at 8:13 | comment | added | BoldBen | I agree with your use of the hyphen. A "plastic bottled drink" reads to me as a bottled drink made of plastic rather than a drink sold in a bottle made of plastic and that is nonsensical. An analogy would be "an alcoholic bottled drink" which would, quite reasonably, be an alcoholic drink sold in a bottle. | |
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| S Jan 30, 2022 at 2:20 | history | answered | Frog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |