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#Writing

🔮Hyphen (-)
A hyphen is a very short horizontal line between words.

🏮Note that there is no space between a hyphen and the character on either side of it.

Do not confuse a hyphen (-) with a dash (—), which is longer.


📌The rules about hyphens are not fixed. The points below are guidelines rather than rules.

💠1)Use a hyphen to join words to show that their meaning is linked in some way:

❗️book-case (or bookcase)
❗️race-horse (or racehorse)
❗️pick-me-up


💠2) Use a hyphen to make compound modifiers before nouns:

🔅a blue-eyed boy (but The boy was blue eyed.)
🔅the well-known actor (but The actor is well known.)
🔅their four-year-old son (but Their son is four years old.

💠3)Use a hyphen with certain prefixes. The prefixes all-, ex-, and self- usually need a hyphen:

🔸all-inclusive
🔸ex-wife
🔸self-control

✔️When a prefix comes before a capitalized word, use a hyphen:
👉non-English

✔️When a prefix is capitalized, use a hyphen:
👉A-frame

💠4) Use a hyphen when writing numbers 21 to 99, and fractions:

🔹twenty-one
🔹one hundred and sixty-five
🔹two-thirds

💠5) Use a hyphen to show that a word has been broken at the end of a line (hyphenation):

👉The directors asked for a more conven- ient location.

💠6) Use a hyphen with "suspended compounds". When we use several very similar compounds together, it may not be necessary to repeat the last part of the compound:

▪️They need to employ more full- and part-time staff. (not They need to employ more full-time and part-time staff.)

▪️This rule applies only to 12-, 13- and 14-year olds. (not This rule applies only to 12-year olds, 13-year olds and 14-year olds.)

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