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| Use a hyphen to divide a word at the end of a line |
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Definition
How many U.S. families have sub-
scribed to cable television? |
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Term
| Divide a word only between syllables |
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Definition
Bob wrote his report on the tyran-
nosaurs, the largest carnivorous dinosaur. |
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Term
| Divide an already hyphenated word at a hyphen |
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Definition
Keisha went to the fair with her great-
uncle James. |
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Term
| Do not divide a word so that one syllable stands alone |
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Definition
Jim imag-
ined what the new home would look like. |
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Term
| Use a hyphen with compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine and with fractions used as modifiers |
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Definition
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Term
| Use a hyphen with the prefixes all-, ex-, great-, and self- and with suffixes -elect and -free and with all prefixes before a proper noun or a proper adjective |
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Definition
| all-star; mid-September; pro-American |
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Term
| Hyphenate a compound adjective when it precedes the noun it modifies |
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Definition
| small-town girl; well-known book |
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