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Where should the hyphen be placed?

An ex high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the University of Kansas.

A- An ex high school standout, he enjoyed a-stellar college career at the University of Kansas.

B- An ex-high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the University of Kansas.

C- An ex high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college-career at the University of Kansas.

D- An ex high-school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the University of Kansas

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The answer is B. For example ex-boyfriend or ex-wife
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Answer: B- An ex-high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the University of Kansas.

An hyphen is a punctuation mark, that is used to join two related words or to break a single word into parts or placed between words which have different meaning. The use of hyphen is called as hyphenation. Here, the hyphen should be present in between ex-high school, which is describing a relation of person with the high school, means that the person was previous scholar of the high school.

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