Another Hyphen Lesson

rogersgeorge on November 22nd, 2023

In english, adjectives normally belong right before the word they modify, but sometimes we put two words together to make a compound adjective. Then we need to hyphenate!

https://www.gocomics.com/backintheday/2023/09/28

See? In the first two, each adjective separately modifies the last word. In the third panel, though, we have a compound adjective, so it should have a hyphen. Except then the comic wouldn’t be as funny.

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