Hyphen Dash Pretest

The novel The Martian Chronicles has twenty two chapters

• No Change

• novel- the Martian Chronicles

• twenty-two chapters

• twenty-two-chapters

My head was pounding, so I took some fast acting medicine

• No change

• fast-acting

• acting-medicine

• fast-acting-medicine

a shorter line, like the one below, is called.....

the most-improved student

• add parenthesis

• hypen

• dash

a long line, sometimes shown as two short lines, about the length of the letter M is called:

• dash

• hyphen

• elipsis

• underline

punctuation that connects words and numbers

• dash

• hyphen

• ellipsis

• tilde

sets off a dramatic interruption or abrupt change of thought

• dash

• hyphen

• ellipsis

• tilde

"please read pages 171 to 183"

If you wanted to replace "to" with a punctuation mark, which of the below would you use?

• None

• : semicolon

• -- dash

• -hyphen

He who shall not be named is coming up the stairs

• No change needed

• He who shall not be named-- is coming up the stairs

• He-who-shall-not-be-named is coming up the stairs

• He--who--shall--not--be--named is coming up the stairs

Add the correct hyphens- or dashes-- to the sentence

• Mr Lee suits the job he has more experience than everybody else--in the department

• Mr Lee suits the job he has more experience than everybody else - in the department

• Mr Lee suits the job- he has more experience than everybody else in the department

• Mr Lee suits the job -- he has more experience than everybody else in the department

add the correct punctuation

She has stopped buying 2_ liter bottles and has started buying .5_liter bottles instead

• -- dash

• - hyphen