Which sentence correctly uses a hyphen?

1.Jessica wants to buy a new hand-bag before she starts her internship.

2.Tammy wants to understand the working of her car’s antilock-brakes.

3.Come mid-September, summer will be over and schools will reopen.

4.David is plann-ing to run for the mayor’s office next year.

Sentence 3, I believe "mid-September" is the correct use of a hyphen. Sentence 1 should say "handbag," sentence 2 should be "anti-lock brakes," and sentence 4 is supposed to just be "planning."

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michell96 michell96 · Answer 2 · 2019-07-22T13:42:05+02:00

The correct answer is 3. Come mid-September, summer will be over and schools will reopen.

Explanation:

According to grammar, the hyphen (-) is used to link two or more words to create a longer one that mixes the meaning of the words linked. Besides this, the correct uses of hyphen include using hyphen in the case of compound adjectives if they are placed before the noun they describe; using hyphen in the case of certain prefixes such as all, mid, self, or ex and using hyphen at the end of a line in the middle of a word. Also, a hyphen should not be used to separate elements in words that are normally written without a hyphen or to link other types of words such as an adjective to a noun.

This implies, from the options presented the only correct one is "Come mid-September, summer will be over and schools will reopen" because in this the hyphen is used with the prefix "-mid" which one of the uses of this punctuation marks. Also, this is the only option in which the hyphen is correct and necessary because other options separate unnecessarily elements in a word or link words that should never be linked.