Prepositions that become hyphenated nowns - for example:
Lie-down
Round-up
Drive-through
The plurals presumably are:
Lie-downs
Round-ups
Drive-throughs
I really don't like these constructions. They're ugly. It seems wrong to pluralise a preposition somehow.
What do you think?
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Plurals of prepositions that become nouns
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LadyEdith · 05/05/2016 14:47
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