True or False
A hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words.
What is true!
Hyphenate: "beautiful looking girl"
What is a beautiful-looking girl?
Hyphenate: The teacher had twenty six children in her classroom.
What is the teacher had twenty-six children her classroom?
Hyphenate : one fourth cup of milk
What is one-fourth cup of milk?
Chose the correct sentence:
A) Mikey is already three years old
B) Mikey is already three-years old
C) Mikey is already three-years-old
What is A?
One should use a hyphen when two adjectives could use "and" instead.
What is false!
Hyphenate: dog friendly hotel
What is a dog-friendly hotel?
Hyphenate: three hundred four flowers
Do not hyphenate
Hyphenate: She ate two thirds of the pint of ice cream.
Choose the correct sentence
A) Who is that suspicious looking person?
B) Who is that suspicious-looking person?
C) Who is that suspicious-looking-person?
What is B?
All compound numbers from eleven to two hundred should be hyphenated.
What is false! Only twenty-one through ninety-nine.
Hyphenate: "A long anticipated decision was made yesterday."
What is a long-anticipated decision was made yesterday?
Hyphenate: I have more than seventy five books in my room.
What is "I have more than seventy-five books in my room?"
Hyphenate: One half of the school attends the football games.
What is one-half of the school attends the football games?
Chose the correct answer:
A) There are more than seventy two stamps in my collection.
B) There are more than seventy-two stamps in my collection.
C) There are more-than-thirty-five stamps in my collection.
What is B?
Adverbs not ending in -ly are used as compound words in front of a noun.
What is true!
Hyphenate: "friendly little girl"
Do not hyphenate: not a compound adjective
Hyphenate or place a comma: What detailed precise notes Jessica took.
Hyphenate: We are a quarter of the way done with school.
Not hyphenated!
Chose the correct answer:
A) Do you remember anything you read in the fifth grade?
B) Do you remember anything you read in the fifth-grade?
What is A?
The hyphen is 2 short lines and is separated by a space on each side.
What is false!
Hyphenate: The teacher who accepts the award is well known.
Not hyphenated: Well known follows the noun it describes.
Hyphenate: Mikey is already three years old.
What is Mikey is already three years old.
Do not use hyphens when the period of time is written plural.
Hyphenate: She completed three fourths of the race.
What is she completed three-fourths of the race?
What is a hyphen:
A) 2 short lines
B) separated by a space on each side
C) all of the above
D) 1 short line
What is D?