Unit 12: Hyphens

Use hyphens to connect two or more words that function as a single adjective _______ a noun, such as "well-known author."

• before

• after

• with

• far away from

Answer explanation

"It is important to set long-term goals for yourself."

'long-term' functions as a single adjective to 'goals', but this is only true if 'goals' is directly after 'long-term'.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Do not use hyphens to connect adverbs ending in ____ to the words they modify.

• -ion

• -ly

• -ing

• -ish

Answer explanation

"highly inspired artist"

"Quickly running person"

Use hyphens to connect compound numbers between twenty-one and ninety-nine, such as ________

• one hundred and one

• nine

• twenty-four

• twenty

Words beginning with the prefixes non-, co-, and pre- are ______ hyphenated.

• often

• never

• usually

• rarely

Answer explanation

Hyphenate prefixes when the prefix comes before a proper noun or a numeral.

ie.: mid-June, pre-90's

Hyphenate simple fractions, but do NOT hyphenate fractions if ____________________.

• the number is higher than twenty.

• one of the numbers is already hyphenated

• one of the numbers is negative

• it's a full moon.

Answer explanation

"four-ninths"

vs.

"seven twenty-fifths"

Use hyphens when writing out ages as adjectives, but do NOT use hyphens in the phrase _________

• years old

• day old

• year old

• month old

Answer explanation

Do NOT use hyphens in the phrase “years old”.

"This man is twenty-one years old."

vs.

"The twenty-one-year-old man works as a police officer."

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Use a hyphen to join a capital letter to the ______ of a word.

• end

• front

• middle

• top

Answer explanation

T-Shirt

V-Neck

X-Ray

Do NOT hyphenate phrases that ______ with a single letter or number.

• begin

• are described

• end

• have commonalities

Do NOT use hyphens when writing _______

• percentages

• compound adjectives

• compound nouns

• simple fractions

Answer explanation

300 percent

1 percent

Which of the sentences is correctly hyphenated?

• I sent a self addressed envelope to my idol.

• Priscilla has turned eleven-years-old.

• I think I mis-spelled the book title on my essay.

• The baseball team went on a two-mile run last weekend.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2