Hyphen Quizzes Online & Trivia

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Our much-loved professor was sixty-five years old.The correct answer is the third one. Much-loved modifies professor so it should be hyphenated and sixty-five is an number between 21 and 99 needs to be hyphenated as well.

1. Compound numbers (written-out numbers 1 to 99)2. Using the suffix -electCompound numbers such as twenty-six are always hyphenated. The author is not well known, is an example where well-known is not hyphenated. The suffix elect is always hyphenated, i.e. the mayor-elect.

Billy saw someone outside his window— or atleast he thought he did.

TrueYou are supposed to add a hyphen between twenty-one to ninety-nine.

Nine-hundred-wordWhen we are building a compound adjective, we add a hyphen between words and get rid of s after each noun.

The man saved her life— too bad he had put it in risk!

A)we need a hyphen to join the words world and famous. Answer: Justin Timberlake is a world-famous singer. b)We want to emphasis that the town in old and not the coal, so we dont put a hyphen between the word old and coal. Answer: Its old and a coal-mining town.

B. "How many times have I asked you not to --"Patrick suddenly stopped talking and looked out the window.