Hyphen (-)

Education English | Hyphen (-) | According to Harvey (250), hypen is used (1) to join the parts of compound words and expression; (2) to divide words into syllables; (3) after a syllable at the end of a line, when the rest of the word is carried to the next line.
Examples: Heaven-born band.
Thou many-headed monster thing.
According to McCaskill (1998: 59) hyphen is used to connect words or parts of words: it connect prefixes and suffixes to word, and it connects coumpound words.
1. Prefixes
Hyphen are sometimes used to connect a prefix to a word. The tendency is to elimate the hyphen after a prefix.
• Hyphen are always required with the following prefixes:
Examples: all- quasi-
• Use hyphen to attach a prefix to a proper noun or adjective:
Examples: un- American
anti-Arab
• Hyphenate a homograph (a word with two meanings) that might be misunderstood without hyphen:
Examples: unionized un-ionized
recover re-cover
2. Suffixes
Hyphen are rarely used to connect a suffix to a word.
• Use the hyphen to avoid tripling a consonant:
Examples: shell-like
hull-less
• Use the hyphen when the suffiix like is attached to a proper noun.
3. Compound word
Examples: Mother-in-law
Right-of-way

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