which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? select 3 options.\nover a-third of our class…

which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? select 3 options.\nover a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.\nthe recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.\nwe planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.\ni will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.\nwe had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.

which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? select 3 options.\nover a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.\nthe recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.\nwe planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.\ni will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.\nwe had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.

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Brief Explanations:

  1. In "Over a - third of our class...", "a - third" is incorrect; it should be "a third" without hyphen.
  2. "one - sixteenth", "thirty - two", "forty - two", "twenty - two", "twenty - five", "twenty - one", "one - half" are correctly hyphenated as they are compound numbers or fractions. "one - hundred" should be "one hundred" without hyphen.

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B. The recipe only uses one - sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty - two cupcakes. C. We planted forty - two trees, but the twenty - two apple trees were my favorites. E. We had to memorize twenty - one verses, which was only one - half of the poem.