Uses of hyphen

• Hyphen is a punctuation mark that joins words or word parts

together.
• For example: Half-baked, kind-heart
• Use hyphen with compound numbers between 21 to ninety nine.
• Forty-one,eighty-three etc.
• Use hyphen with fractions
• One-third, nine- sixteenth
• If a word does not fit on the same line, use a hyphen to show that the
remaining part of the word is on the next line.
• He was coming to Peshawar in extre-
mely hot weather.
• Use hyphen with compound nouns.
• Mother-in-law,commander-in-chief
• Use hyphen to join compound modifiers that precede nouns.
• Middle-class family, kind-hearted person, well-known personality
• Use hyphen with prefixes and suffixes.
• Anti-American,self-employed (prefixes)
• President-elect, bold-type, (suffixes)
• Remember that if we don’t use hyphen
• Where it is necessary, the meaning of the word completely changes.
• For example: resign and re-sign
• Repress and re-press
• Recover and re-cover
• Use a hyphen after a prefix when it is followed by a proper noun or
proper adjective
• For example: Mid- June, Afro- American
• With ex: Ex- wife, ex- cricketer
• Pre- history, pre-planned
• Uses of Dash
Dash is comparatively longer than a hyphen
Dash is used to introduce an abrupt stop or change of thought
For example: Hello,hello, is this the resi- (phone disconnects)
If my husband were alive- but leave it.
A dash can also be used to introduce additional information as an
afterthought.
Tariq will travel to France the coming week- his first trip abroad.