WALT use hyphens What does a hyphen look

WALT use hyphens

What does a hyphen look like? • shorter mark than a dash • no space before or after it • next to the zero on a laptop • E. g razor-sharp thirty-seven co-operate

When can we use a hyphen? • To join two words to make one adjective before a noun e. g. ice-cold dog-friendly beautiful-looking • join compound numbers e. g. twenty-two thirty-seven • prefixes where the end and start letter are the same Re-enter re-educate co-operate • Never joins two main clauses (that is the job of the dash)

Where has the hyphen been used correctly? 1. 2.

Where has the hyphen been used correctly? This sentence is correct because it is making the compound adjective ‘half-price’. 2. This sentence is incorrect because the word should be ‘recalled’ which doesn’t need a hyphen.

The hyphen is used to create the compound word ‘fun-loving’ which means someone is light-hearted and lively.

These words mean different things. re-paired repaired Repaired means to mend something. Re-paired means to put back into pairs (twos)

Which two words need a hyphen between them to make a compound adjective?

Which two words need a hyphen between them to make a compound adjective? ‘Quick’ and ‘thinking’ join together to describe someone who thinks of something at speed.

In the first sentence there are two words which mean something similar but not quite the same: ‘freezing’ and ‘cold’. In the second sentence, the hyphen joins them together to make a word which means something at a very cold temperature.

When can we use a hyphen? • To join two words to make one adjective before a noun e. g. ice-cold dog-friendly beautiful-looking • join compound numbers e. g. twenty-two thirty-seven • prefixes where the end and start letter are the same Re-enter re-educate co-operate • Never joins two main clauses (that is the job of the dash)