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Read the following sentence.

The friendly community had little town charm.

Edit the above sentence. Use a hyphen to give the sentence a positive connotation.

The friendly-community had little, town charm.
The friendly-community had little, town-charm.
The friendly community had little-town charm.
The friendly-community had little town charm.

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The friendly community had little-town charm.
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The correct answer is C. The friendly community had little-town charm

Step-by-step explanation:

Hyphens (-) are punctuation marks mainly used to join two or more words and show the reader these words meaning is being combined which usually leads to a change in meaning in the sentence where there is a hyphen. As other punctuation marks hyphen follow specific grammar rules that include using the hyphen in compound nouns such as sister-in-law, using hyphens in numbers such as twenty-three; avoid to use hyphens in adverbs that end in "ly" and using hyphens to clarify the meaning of words in a sentence. Due to this, the sentence "The friendly community had little-town charm" uses hyphen correctly and gives the sentence a more positive connotation as in the case of "friendly community" there is no hyphen which is grammatically correct and "little-town" has been hyphen to clarify the meaning as in the sentence "The friendly community had little town charm" the reader can interpret the community had little charm, but by using a hyphen in "little-town" the meaning has a more positive connotation by stating the type of charm of the community can be compared to the charm of small towns, which modifies the previous meaning.

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