Hyphens, Dashes,

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Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses

• Setting off words

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Hyphens (-)

• Use a hyphen
• If part of a word is carried over from one line
  to the next.
• RIGHT -- Num-ber let-ter
• WRONG -- a-cross co-de
• In compound words.
• Half-dollar, great-uncle

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Hyphens (-)

• In compound numbers from twenty-one through
  ninety-nine.
• Sixty-three, forty-five
• In spelled-out fractions.
• One-half, three-fifths

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Dashes (--)

• Use dashes to show a sudden break in thought.
• Louis Braille -- who lost his sight at age three
  -- invented an alphabet for blind people.

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Parentheses ()

• Use parentheses to set off material that
  explains the rest of a sentence.
• He finally answered (after taking five minutes to
  think) that he did not understand the question.