• shasta
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    7 months ago

    I was under the impression that such a phrase should be hyphenated in order to use the clitic with it, such as “the-individual-I-spotted’s face”.

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      7 months ago

      Possibly - I wouldn’t really know. Writing isn’t language, and written English’s “rules” are subjective and largely arbitrary, so I don’t worry about them very much.