Hyphens And Dashes Quiz
5 Questions
| Total Attempts: 3985
Let's see if you learned your hyphens and dashes with a quiz. If you fail, you can always retake it.
Questions and Answers
- 1.How do you place a hyphen between a word when it's at the end of a line?
- A.
Just place the hyphen wherever it fits
- B.
You use a dash
- C.
Place the hyphen between a consonant and a vowel
- D.
Place the hyphen between syllables
- 2.How do you indicate a break in a sentence?
- A.
Hyphen
- B.
Colon
- C.
Dash
- D.
Period
- 3.Do you put spaces between hyphens with the rest of the sentence and also with dashes?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- C.
Only with hyphens, not dashes
- D.
Only with dashes, not hyphens
- 4.Choose the correct format.
- A.
Sally is brown-eyed.
- B.
The man is one hundred twenty-one.
- C.
My uncle is really my mother's half-brother.
- D.
Did you buy a t shirt from the store?
- 5.Choose the correct format.
- A.
I believe-- actually I know-- you are wrong.
- B.
She works with--food burgers, fries, and chicken.
- C.
I know but--
- D.
Butter a fat substance has no nutritional value.
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