Colon and Hyphens

Colon and Hyphens Use a colon after the greeting of a business letter and between numerals indicating hours and minutes. Dear Ms. Ryan: Dear sir: 6:45 A.M. 10:20 P.M. Use a colon to introduce a list of items. The following positions are available: chief marketing advisor, public relations specialist, statistical typist, and management trainee.

A dash is used with a long explanation that interrupts the sentence or after a series to indicate that a summary will follow.

The runners---more than three hundred who have come from all over the country---are lined up for the start of the race.

Lifeguards, park attendants, and concession workers---these are the positions the resort has open.

Use a hyphen if part of a word must be carried over from one line to the next. Voters have continued to stream into the polls through- out the day. Use a hyphen in compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine. use a hyphen in fractions. Twenty-four students One-fourth the profit. Use a hyphen in certain compound nouns, such as sister-in-law. use a hyphen between words that make up a compound adjective used before a noun. I have a part-time job. (but: I work part time)

Use apostrophes, semicolons, colons, dashes, and hyphens correctly. Add the missing punctuation. 1. Thirty two percent of those surveyed mentioned the following problems unemployment, the Mideast, the Iranian crisis, and inflation. 2. Appetizer, salad or vegetable, beverage, and dessert these come with the meal. 3. Blues, jazz, hard rock Mark can play anything. 4. At 1215 A.M. Tonys brother in law arrived everyone was waiting up to meet him 5. For many reasons lack of funds, production delays, and a poor response from the community the project has been scrapped. 6. My eight year old cousin Megan loves skating. 7. This fare includes round-trip airfare, four days hotel accommodations, three breakfast, and a half-day escorted sight seeing tour of the city. 8. The Vice President spoke for forty five minutes. 9. Several players are new nevertheless, this years team should be a good one. 10. The coach scheduled a post game conference. 11. Joanne won the race furthermore she broke the course record. 12. Two players the highest scorers in the league were injured.