Continuing our series of odd questions ... quick, is the following sentence correctly punctuated?
Come in and enjoy a home-style dinner with all the fixin's!
Definitive Answer from Casey:
"Though it looks wonky somehow, I think it is. "Home-style" is not in the dictionary, so it's hard to say if it should be a hyphenate, and though "fixin's" looking like an improperly placed possessive, it seems like a proper conjunction."
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Though it looks wonky somehow, I think it is. "Home-style" is not in the dictionary, so it's hard to say if it should be a hyphenate, and though "fixin's" looking like an improperly placed possessive, it seems like a proper conjunction.
There is a plague of bad menu editing here. I've taken to amusing myself (and others) with editing them as I go.
I agree, and I also thought it was a rogue possessive at first.
I knew I could depend on you to answer this one! =)
Looks right to me.
I believe you usually use the hypen like that when an adjective is attributive (typically, before the noun it describes) rather than a predicate adjective.
So for example, “That interview was hard hitting,” but “That was a hard-hitting interview.”
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