Hyphens Usage: Test Your Knowledge! Trivia Quiz
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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!
Questions and Answers
- 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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