Grammar Detective: Hyphens (1)

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• Thirty-five employees were honored at the company's annual awards banquet

• Thirty five employees were honored at the company's annual-awards banquet

• Thirty five employees were honored at the company's annual awards banquet.

Answer explanation

Use a hyphen between each word in numbers between 21 and 99. For example, "twenty-one" and "ninety-nine"

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

CCSS.L.11-12.1

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• The fifty-year-old company has begun an ongoing-review of its plant's equipment needs

• The fifty-year-old company has begun an ongoing review of its plant's equipment needs

• The fifty year old company has begun an ongoing review of its plant's equipment needs

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• My self-sufficient daughter wanted to stir her own chocolate-milk

• My selfsufficient daughter wanted to stir her own chocolate-milk

• My self-sufficient daughter wanted to stir her own chocolate milk

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

CCSS.L.11-12.1

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• After Joe retired, there was an opening for editor in chief of the magazine

• After Joe retired, there was an opening for editor in-chief of the magazine

• After Joe retired, there was an opening for editor-in-chief of the magazine

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• We discovered a pre-Columbian relic in Mexico

• We discovered a preColumbian relic in Mexico

• We discovered a pre-Columbian-relic in Mexico

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• The father to-be paced nervously in the hospital's waiting room

• The father-to-be paced nervously in the hospital's waiting room

• The father to be paced nervously in the hospital's waiting room

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

CCSS.L.11-12.1

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• He always had trouble with his car's hard to open radiator cap

• He always had trouble with his car's hard-to-open radiator cap

• He always had trouble with his car's hard-to-open radiator-cap

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• Barry likes to eat ice cream coated with a hard shell-topping

• Barry likes to eat ice cream coated with a hard-shell-topping

• Barry likes to eat ice cream coated with a hard-shell topping

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• Doug is a thirteen-year old genius

• Doug is a thirteen year old genius

• Doug is a thirteen-year-old genius

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly.

• I'm going to the off-Broadway production of Hamlet

• I'm going to the off Broadway production of Hamlet

• I'm going to the off Broadway-production of Hamlet