Hyphens Usage: Test Your Knowledge! Trivia Quiz

10 Questions | By Srbaxter | Updated: Mar 22, 2022 | Attempts: 1793

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Hyphens Usage: Test Your Knowledge! Trivia Quiz - 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