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Which sentence uses hyphens correctly?

A. In mid August, temperatures in the Pecan Bayou area regularly reach 105-degrees.
B. In mid August, temperatures in the Pecan Bayou-area regularly reach 105 degrees.
C. In mid-August, temperatures in the Pecan Bayou area regularly reach 105 degrees.

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C. In mid-August, temperatures in the Pecan Bayou area regularly reach 105 degrees.

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Answer:

C. In mid-August, temperatures in the Pecan Bayou area regularly reach 105 degrees.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hypens (-) are used to glue words together, they link things in a sentence. One rule of the use of hypens states that they can be used with prefixes when they come before proper nouns or proper adjectives. Remeber that a prefix is a letter or group of letters that are placed before a root word in order to change it's meaning. In this case August is a proper noun, and the prefix is mid- meaning in the middle of a period of time, in the middle of August.

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