Hyphens in prefixes and suffixes

Choose the correct sentence.

• His son-in-law came to meet him.

• His son in law came to meet him.

What are Hyphens?

• A punctuation mark that is used to join adverbs and nouns.

• A punctuation mark that is used to separate words.

• A punctuation mark that is used to join words together.

• A punctuation mark used to end a sentence.

Which of the sentences is correctly hyphenated?

• I sent a self addressed envelope to my idol.

• Priscilla has turned eleven-years-old.

• I think I mis-spelled the book title on my essay.

• The baseball team went on a two-mile run last weekend.

Low income families often struggle to pay bills.

• Low-income

• income-families

• often-struggle

• pay-bills

Which word is being hyphenated correctly at the end of a line?

• al-most
• pape-r
• wa-ter
• no-one

Choose the word that needs a hyphen in the following sentence: That recipe calls for one fourth cup of flour.

• That-recipe
• for-one
• one-fourth
• one-fourth-cup

It is typically used to express ranges or to clarify more complex compound words.

• En Dash

• Semicolon

• Hyphen

• Em Dash

That magnificent ______ temple was constructed by the Chinese.

• Eight-century-old

• Eight-century's-old

• Old -eight-century

• eight-century-old

Which sentence is correct?

• Yesterday, there were fourteen short-answer questions on the test.

• Yesterday, there were fourteen-short-answer questions on the test.

• Yesterday, there were fourteen short-answer-questions on the test.

• Yesterday, there were fourteen short answer questions on the test.

We need to wear mask because of ______________

• covid19

• co-vid19

• covid-19