Let's continue our discussion and exploration of hyphen usage in writing. This next rule may be the simplest one of all!
Rule 2: Use a hyphen with compound numbers.
Examples: forty-six, sixty-three, twenty-nine
Note: When writing numbers like those, you have two options: use the numbers (46, for example) or spell it out and use the hyphen.
I'd like you to write two sentences and show both of the ways to correctly use numbers. I'll give you an example below.
1.) My sister is twenty-eight years old.
2.) My sister is 28 years old.
Now you try it!
6 comments:
Do you have more than 74 items in your cart, Mr. Chow?
Do you have more than seventy-four items in your cart, Mr. Chow?
SHENEA WALKER
He has 75 pennies.
He has seventy-five pennies.
Maria C. Torres
9/26/2010
I will be twenty-nine years old for the rest of my life!
My chronological age is 29.
My mother has not seen her uncle Paul in about twenty-seven years.
I am not going to wait thirty-three year s to finish this painting.
Nicole Cunningham
Joy is twenty years old.
Joy is 20 years old.
Dorothea M.
1. I’ve been working on my job for twenty-four years.
2. My husband and I;have been married for twenty-five years this December.
3. My son is 18 years old.
Gail
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