LEARN FOUR USES FOR THE HYPHEN

1. Use hyphens to join compound adjectives — words that work together to describe a noun. Make sure these words come before, not after, the noun.

2.Use hyphens to connect prefixes to capitalized words.

3.Use hyphens to connect prefixes such as all-, ex-, post-, pro-, and self- to some words.

In many cases, however, prefixes are attached to words without hyphens.

4. Use hyphens with two-word numbers from 21 (twenty-one) to 99 (ninety-nine):

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