All of the Following Statements About Hyphens, Dashes, Semicolons, and Colons

question 7

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about hyphens, dashes, semicolons, and colons are true  except

• A) Writers should use dashes sparingly in academic writing.
• B) A semicolon can be called a soft period.
• C) A semicolon follows a salutation in a formal greeting.
• D) Hyphens are used to create compound adjectives that appear before the noun.