What is a Hyphen? Explain.
Difficulty: Easy
Hyphen:
It is a punctuation mark(-) used:
to form a compound from two or more other words:
Hard-hearted
Fork-lift truck
mother-to-be
to form a compound from a prefix and a proper name:
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-European
when writing compound numbers between 21 and 99 in words:
Seventy-three
Thirty-one
sometimes in British English to separate a prefix ending in a vowel from a word beginning with the same vowel:
Co-operate
Pre-eminent