Hyphens Usage: Test Your Knowledge! Trivia Quiz

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Hyphens Usage: Test Your Knowledge! Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge on hyphen usage by taking up the quiz below. Hyphens can be used for a number of reasons, and the main reason in a sentence is to join two or more words serving as adjectives before a noun. Take this test and see how good you are when it comes to solving it. All the best!

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1.

Use hyphens for adjectives that come after a noun.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
2.

Which is the correct version to say a bottle holding hot water?
- A.
  
  Hot water bottle
- B.
  
  Hot water-bottle
- C.
  
  Hot-water bottle
- D.
  
  None of the above
3.

Using line breaks, which option shows all of the correct possibilities to split the word "difficult?"
- A.
  
  D-ifficult
- B.
  
  Diff-icult
- C.
  
  Difficul-t
- D.
  
  Diff-i-cult
4.

You should never put the first or last letter of a word on a separate line.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
5.

Select all of the correct uses of hyphenation.
- A.
  
  Anti-Russian
- B.
  
  X-ray
- C.
  
  Shelllike
- D.
  
  Mid-1920s
6.

You would split the word mass-produced by putting "mass-" on one line and "produced" on the next line.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
7.

All numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine must include a hyphen.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
8.

Which is an incorrect use of adjectives with hyphens in relation to a noun?
- A.
  
  She is two-years-old.
- B.
  
  This is a one-way street.
- C.
  
  The author was well known.
- D.
  
  My eight-year-old neighbor wrote a book.
9.

You split the word "planning" with line breaks by hyphenating it as "plann-ing."
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
10.

Hyphens can really change the meaning of a word (i.e. resign vs re-sign).
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False

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When do you use a hyphen on words? How should hyphenated words and phrases be used? The quiz below is on hyphens with compound adjectives and it will help you improve your understanding of the subject.

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Sample Question
Which one of these sentences is grammatically correct.

Our professor much-loved was sixty-five years old.

Our much-loved professor was sixty five years old.

Our much-loved professor was sixty-five years old.

Our professor much-loved was sixty five years old.