{"id":4466,"date":"2014-09-13T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T12:19:31","slug":"when-to-hyphenate-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/when-to-hyphenate-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Hyphenate Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Hyphen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4467\" title=\"Hyphen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Hyphen.jpg\" alt=\"Why we need hyphens in numbers\" width=\"236\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Knowing when to hyphenate numbers is important because the correct use of the hyphen helps your reader to understand which numbers are part of a given adjective and avoids any ambiguity.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the example on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Is the guy working twenty shifts that are each four hours long, twenty-four shifts that are each an hour long? Or shifts that last twenty-four hours in total?<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, where you place the hyphen in the number can make a significant difference to the meaning of the sentence.<!--more-->If you are struggling to format text correctly and address any errors in your writing, take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/Proofreading-Services\/\">proofreading services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Hyphenating Numbers: The Rules<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>You should always hyphenate numbers when you are describing compound numbers between 21 and 99 (except 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90). A compound number is any number that consists of two words; for example, eighty-eight, twenty-two, forty-nine.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers higher than 99 do not need a hyphen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Hyphenating Numbers: Examples<\/h3>\n<p><em>The bingo caller pulled a ball from the machine and announced: \u201cTwo little ducks, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">twenty-two<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There were over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one hundred<\/span> people in line for the concert.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A total of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0hundred and fifty-five<\/span> people participated in the survey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one hundred<\/span> million dollar profit is not such a big deal when you made <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two hundred and eighty-six<\/span> million dollars the year before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I haven\u2019t seen Gerald since <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nineteen forty-five.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was shocked to see that there were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three hundred<\/span> chickens living in the barn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>24,624,678 (24,624,678.5 (twenty-four million, six hundred twenty-four thousand, six hundred seventy-eight and five tenths).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>One more thing&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>If you want some help proofreading your important documents, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\">Vappingo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing when to hyphenate numbers is important because the correct use of the hyphen helps your reader to understand which numbers are part of a given adjective and avoids any ambiguity. Let&#8217;s look at the example on the left. Is the guy working twenty shifts that are each four hours long, twenty-four shifts that are &#8230; <a title=\"When to Hyphenate Numbers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/when-to-hyphenate-numbers\/\" aria-label=\"More on When to Hyphenate Numbers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}