PUNCTUATION – hyphens in compound nouns

Punctuation

  • This resource pack of 3 pages has activities to identify compound nouns which contain hyphens and to use these words in free writing

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17th July 2025

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  • Punctuation marks help the reader understand what the writer is trying to say

  • A hyphen look like this - and is slightly shorter than a dash —

  • Hyphens are used to join together two or three words to form a compound word such as check-in

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