Question

Read the passage. Hanna and Ai-Lin had to wait in line for three hours to buy concert tickets. Then, they had to park a mile away and wait for forty five minutes to get into the stadium. Over one thousand people attended the concert! To correct the punctuation error in the passage, the writer should hyphenate A. "three hours." B. "a mile." C. "forty five." D. "one thousand."

Answer 1

Answer:

C. "forty five."

Explanation:

The writer is supposed to hyphenate the words forty five like this, forty-five.

Hyphen is a sign (-) used in joining two words together to indicate a singular meaning. In using hyphen, when it comes to numbers in words, there are some rules that are usually being employed. One is that numbers higher that 99 do not need hyphenation. That is one hundred, one thousand and so on are not hyphenated. Second rule is that, hyphens are only used when writing compound numbers in words between 21 - 99, like twenty-one, fifty-two and so on.