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Please show me example sentences with (-) . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
Please show me example sentences with (-) . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
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I answered earlier about how to use (—), and here I just want to clarify something for you. (—) and (-) are different symbols. The first, I explained in the other post how to use, and is called a dash or an em-dash. (-) is called a hyphen, and it is used differently.
(-) is not used to link sentences/clauses, but it is used to link words when they form a single unit. One of the most common cases of this is when a phrase is used as a modifier (i.e., an adjective or adverb). For example: "He was a good-for-nothing layabout" or "The orange-juice-drinking person left the room".
Don't worry too much about using hyphens. Lot's of native English speakers struggle to figure out where to put them, and there are many cases where it's not clear if a hyphen should be used or not.
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