Language Test: Answer Key
From this test.
1. Which sentence has its hyphens CORRECTLY distributed?
- A. You're thirty one years-old. You should act like a thirty one year-old.
- B. You're thirty-one years-old. You should act like a thirty-one year-old.
- C. You're thirty-one years old. You should act like a thirty-one-year-old.
- D. You're thirty-one years-old. You should act like a thirty-one year-old.
C is the best answer for the following reasons:
- "Thirty-one," as a number, needs to be hyphenated. A doesn't have that.
- "Thirty-one-year-old" is connected together by hyphens because every piece of it is necessary to apply to one noun: the person who's thirty-one years old. C is the only choice that uses it.
- Saying someone is "X years-old" is incorrect. Both B and D make this mistake.
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