Punctuation: Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses/Brackets
Hyphens and Dashes * Hyphenate adjectives. * Ex: five-year term; long-term relationship; five-year-old boy * If the compound modifier consists of an adjective that itself modifies a compound, additional hyphens may not be necessary. * Ex: late nineteenth-century literature and early twentieth-century growth ar…
