Another lesson in hyphenating phrasal adjectives
04 July 2008
A couple of weeks ago, a headline in a law-oriented magazine prompted me to write on the importance of hyphenating phrasal adjectives. Today a different headline teaches the same lesson more vividly, and this time, the headline writer gets it right. From the Onion:
Without the hyphens, diseased and deformed would describe the author. But the hyphens make clear that those words modify animal.