PLEASE ANSWER SOON: do the words "pathos powered" need a hyphen ( - ) in between them or are they ok?
becca
2011-05-10 22:16:14 UTC
"pathos powered" support or "pathos-powered support". which is more gramatically correct?
Four answers:
RE
2011-05-10 22:29:48 UTC
Any time two or more words together are used as an adjective, for clarity you must tie them together with a hyphen. So,
pathos-powered support [whatever that might mean]
one-size-fits-all approach
divide-and-conquer strategy
etc.
empire
2011-05-11 05:40:22 UTC
I think the change should be made - Powered by Pathos, To keep it disambiguated.
Francis
2011-05-11 05:30:11 UTC
You definitely need a hyphen as in "self-sufficient." "Self" and "pathos" are nouns, and "sufficient" and "powered" are adjectives.
Tontagata
2011-05-11 05:30:35 UTC
I truly believe you only put a hyphen in between words like this if it's double nouns.For instance:'mind-games'.Like....those words that are considered one word but aren't connected such as other double noun words like fishtank and icecream.
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