Question

Which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? Select 3 options.

Over a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.
The recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.
We planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.
I will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.
We had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.

Answer 1

Correct answers: 2, 3, and 5.

Brief notes:
- (2) "one-sixteenth" and "thirty-two" are correctly hyphenated.
- (3) "forty-two" and "twenty-two" are correctly hyphenated.
- (5) "twenty-one" and "one-half" are correctly hyphenated.

(1) "a third" and "another third" should not be hyphenated. (4) "one hundred" is not hyphenated.