English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

Where does a hyphen belong in the sentence below?
Layla is an arrogant, self possessed, and generally bossy person.

  1. Between 'arrogant' and 'self' (in place of the comma)
  2. Between 'self' and 'possessed'
  3. Between 'generally' and 'bossy'
  4. Between 'bossy' and 'person'

hintHint:

A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark that’s used to join words or parts of words.

The correct answer is: Between 'self' and 'possessed'


    Generally, a hyphen is used when two or more words are functioning together as an adjective for the subject of the sentence. Here, the words "self" and "possessed" function together, therefore the correct answer is option b.

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