Never was there a better example than this headline of why hyphens are important in compound modifiers:
Patent Holder Sues Six Smart-Phone Companies
They have correctly used a hyphen in the compound modifier "smart-phone". And why is this significant?
Well, because otherwise we’d have to accept that there’s such a thing as a phone company that’s smart, that’s why.
1 comment:
I dunno. I might be able to believe that.
But six of them?
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