CBSE Class 8 English Hyphens Worksheet

Use a hyphen to show the division of a word at the end of a line. Always divide a word between syllables.

The Big Dipper is probably the most familiar of all the constellations.

Use a hyphen in compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine.

Use a hyphen or hyphens in certain compound nouns. Check a dictionary.

father-in-law                       sisters-in-law
 

Exercise 1 Add hyphens where needed. Write C if the sentence needs no changes.

..........C......... He peeled twenty-three apples for the pies.

..................... 1. I have thirty-five dollars to spend.

..................... 2. Drew’s great-grandmother knows a lot of interesting stories.

..................... 3. Gregorio’s dad turns thirty-five tomorrow.

..................... 4. Jack Benny always said he was thirty-nine.

..................... 5. This company produces fifty-seven kinds of soup.

..................... 6. The latitude of Chicago is forty-two degrees.

..................... 7. The mother of my sister’s husband is my sister’s mother-in-law.

..................... 8. Did you climb all ninety-one steps?

..................... 9. The produce store has twenty-seven kinds of vegetables.

..................... 10. The piano has eighty-eight keys.

..................... 11. Jeanna has exactly seventy-three cents in her pocket.

..................... 12. The speed limit on the highway is fifty-five miles an hour.

..................... 13. The woman over there is my sister-in-law.

..................... 14. She lives in Boonetown; he lives thirty-three miles away.

..................... 15. There are thirty-eight desks in the room.

..................... 16. She’s never been more than seventy-five miles from home

..................... 17. A slice of bread has only forty-two calories.

..................... 18. There must be at least eighty-five cows in the field.

..................... 19. Can I buy a good radio for twenty-five dollars?

..................... 20. The bottle has forty-one vitamin pills in it.

..................... 21. The alphabet has twenty-six letters.

..................... 22. Alfonso counted sixty-eight jelly beans in the basket.

..................... 23. The temperature is thirty-four degrees.

..................... 24. There are one hundred and forty-two steps between my house and yours.

..................... 25. The pie in the nursery rhyme had twenty-four blackbirds in it.

..................... 26. Her birthday is the thirty-first of March.

..................... 27. Four score and seven is the same as eighty-seven.

..................... 28. Not too many years ago there were only forty-eight states.

..................... 29. The cheese sandwich costs eighty-five cents.

..................... 30. Are there enough books for twenty-eight students?
 

Writing Link Write three or four sentences of a plot for a book that stretches over several generations. Give the character’s relationships and ages.