Let's see if you learned your hyphens and dashes with a quiz. If you fail, you can always retake it.
Just place the hyphen wherever it fits
You use a dash
Place the hyphen between a consonant and a vowel
Place the hyphen between syllables
Hyphen
Colon
Dash
Period
Yes
No
Only with hyphens, not dashes
Only with dashes, not hyphens
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