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2010-08-30

The correct use of hyphens is often overlooked. It is worth the time to teach your students some of the common ways in which hyphens are used.

Hyphens are used:

  • for the compound numbers twenty-one to ninety-nine.
  • in a compound adjective that comes before a noun. For example, "I think that is a made-up word."
  • in compounds consisting of prefixes joined to proper nouns. For example, "Our school year begins in mid-August."
  • to separate the numerator from the denominator in a fraction. For example, "More than "one-half" of the class voted to have a pizza party."
  • to avoid confusion. For example, "He is a French-speaking student" refers to a student who speaks French, not to a student from France who speaks.

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