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Deast7027

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All of the following statements are true about dashes except
 
  a. A dash is indicated by two hyphens with no spacing before or after.
  b. The dash does more to join words together than to separate them.
  c. Most word-processing programs convert two hyphens into a dash.
  d. A dash can be used instead of a colon for emphasis.

Question 2

Use hyphens to
 
  a. create compound adjectives that appear before the noun, such as copper-colored coin.
 b. for numbers in a fraction or for compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine.
 c. to show that two or more words share a common element included in only the final term, such as small-, medium-, and large-sized shirts.
  d. all of the above



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shailee

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d




Deast7027

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Reply 2 on: Jul 15, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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