Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will continue to answer a question from Yousra, from Egypt, about using hyphens when making compound nouns. Hello, my name is Yousra from Egypt. I would like to ...

Which is right: a backup plan, a back-up plan or a back up plan? How about a cutoff date, a cut-off date or a cut off date? A takeout menu, a take-out menu or a take out menu? The answer: There is no ...

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The first rule of the hyphen is that IT IS NOT A DASH. Don’t call it that. The most common question about hyphens is when to use them to link compound modifiers. Here are conventional patterns: ...