Pt4 Hyphens sheet 2

1. Use a hyphen in compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine.

Fifty-five minutes twenty-four students

2. Use a hyphen in fractions.

I got a three-fourths majority of the vote.

3. Use a hyphen or hyphens in compound nouns.

Great-grandmother commander-in-chief merry-go-round

4. Use a hyphen for compound adjectives used before a noun.

Joey made last-minute changes to his plan.

5. Use a hyphen if a syllable of a word must be carried over from one line to the next.

Directions: Rewrite the sentence. Add hyphens. Circle what you add.

1. We received the store’s new, up to date catalog.
2. In ten years I will be twenty three years old.
3. We saw that the lawn was half cut.
4. One half of the field was muddy, but that didn’t stop our having a well played game.
5. Ninety three students in all voted in the election.
6. Maurita won the election by a three fourths majority.
7. You must write out the amount of the check: two hundred twenty three dollars and fifty six cents.
8. Our great grandmother celebrated her ninety fifth birth

day.

9. The postage for this package is sixty two cents.
10. About sixty eight percent of the residents voted in the special election.
11. When were your great grandparents born?
12. The man had a well to do look about him.
13. Mr. Perez’s daughter in law is an up and coming politician.
14. Jake’s still life paintings are much better than his por

traits.

15. Kelly’s Lake, once a quiet, out of the way resort, is now a dirty, evil smelling swamp.