Author Question: All of the following statements are true about dashes except a. A dash is indicated by two ... (Read 55 times)

Deast7027 · **on:** Jul 15, 2018

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