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1 Hyphenated words

2 Rule #1 Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine. Examples: The teacher had thirty-two children in her classroom. Only twenty-one of the children were bilingual.

3 Rule # 2 Hyphenate all spelled-out fractions.
Examples: You need one-third of a cup of sugar for that recipe. More than one-half of the student body voted for removing soda machines from campus

4 Rule # 3 Hyphenate all words beginning with self except for selfish and selfless. Examples: self-assured self-respect self-addressed

5 Here are some other examples:
Vice-president School-poet Student-athlete Brother-in-law Great-granddaughter Self-restraint One-half President-elect

6 Use Hyphens to connect two or more words into a new adjective
A one-way street Ice-covered trees Tree-lined streets Just-baked cookies Vanilla-flavored milk A once-in-a-lifetime event


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