What should be applied to fractions when written as words?

apostrophe
quotation marks
parentheses
capitalization
hyphen
italics

1 answer

When writing fractions as words, a hyphen should be applied. For example, "two-thirds" and "five-eighths" are correctly hyphenated. Other options like quotation marks, parentheses, capitalization, italics, and apostrophes are generally not used for written fractions in standard usage.