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HYPHENS

HYPHENS. Prepare to be schooled by Ms. Hanzlick, of course!. What is a hyphen?. This thing: - NOT this thing: --. Why Hyphens Matter :. ･Disease-causing poor nutrition , meaning poor nutrition that causes disease

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HYPHENS

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  1. HYPHENS Prepare to be schooled by Ms. Hanzlick, of course!

  2. What is a hyphen? • This thing: - • NOT this thing: --

  3. Why Hyphens Matter: ･Disease-causing poor nutrition, meaning poor nutrition that causes disease ･Disease causing poor nutrition, meaning a disease that causes poor nutrition. ･A man-eating shark is a shark that eats humans. ･A man eating shark is a man who is eating shark meat. ･A blue-green sea is a sea whose color is somewhere between blue and green. ･A blue green sea is a contradiction, unless "green" is used contextually to mean something other than a color. ･Three-hundred-year-old trees are an indeterminate number of trees that are 300 years old.･ Three hundred-year-old trees are three trees that are 100 years old. ･Three hundred year-old trees are 300 trees that are each 1 year old.

  4. THE RULES: • (1) Use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun: • a one-way street • chocolate-covered peanuts • well-known author

  5. THE RULES: • (2) Use a hyphen with compound numbers: • forty-six • sixty-three • Our much-loved teacher was sixty-three years old.

  6. THE RULES: • Use a hyphen with the prefixes ex- (meaning former), self-, all-; with the suffix -elect; between a prefix and a capitalized word; and with figures or letters: • ex-husband • self-assured • mid-September • all-inclusive • mayor-elect • anti-American • T-shirt • pre-Civil War • mid-1980s

  7. THE RULES: • Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line if necessary, and make the break only between syllables: • I thought my mother was going to di- vorce my father, but I guess she changed her mind.

  8. THE RULES: • Some words are just hyphenated, period: • mother-in-law • step-son

  9. EXAMPLES: • Show the  if the sentence is correct. • Show the  if the sentence is incorrect.

  10. EXAMPLES: • He has a high-and-mighty attitude. 

  11. EXAMPLES: • You will always find a spicandspan kitchen at Ann’s house.

  12. EXAMPLES: • This enamel has been baked on. 

  13. EXAMPLES: • That pan has a bakedon enamel. 

  14. EXAMPLES: • My mom is forty five years old. 

  15. EXAMPLES: • The sixty-two year old man died. 

  16. EXAMPLES: • Ms. Hanzlick was born in the early mid-1980s. 

  17. EXAMPLES: • My mother in law is very annoying. 

  18. EXAMPLES: • The peanut butter-covered crickets tasted surprisingly delicious. 

  19. EXAMPLES: • The fire breathing dragon burned my face off. 

  20. EXAMPLES: • Her ex husband is a stupid dummy. 

  21. EXAMPLES: • The prize winning poet spoke at my graduation ceremony last year. 

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