A 6th grade worksheet on the hyphen, the shortest joining mark. Students hyphenate compound adjectives that come before a noun (a well-known song, a ten-year-old girl) but not after it (the song is well known), write the numbers twenty-one to ninety-nine and fractions such as two-thirds with hyphens, use hyphens with prefixes like self- and ex- and before a capital letter (pre-Columbian), and learn not to hyphenate after -ly adverbs. They also tell the hyphen apart from the longer dash.
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Completed: Hyphens in Compound Adjectives and Numbers
6th Grade students (typically ages 11–12) working on punctuation. It is pitched at level 2 · standard; an easier version and a harder version are linked above.
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About 25 minutes for 22 questions. Short, regular sessions work best: two or three a week beats one long one.
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If two or more words work together as one adjective before a noun, join them with hyphens.
A hyphen (-) joins words into one idea. Circle the correctly punctuated choice.
Add hyphens to compound adjectives that come before a noun. If a sentence is already correct, copy it as it is.
Write each one correctly with a hyphen.
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