Question

Which choice shows the correct use of a hyphen? apart-ment self-taught North-Atlantic tea-cher

Answer 1

The correct use of a hyphen is: self-taught.

Answer 2

Self-taught.

Step-by-step explanation:

The hyphen in this example joins the words self and taught to integrate the compound word self-taught, which is a recognized adjective. Normally the hyphen wouldn't be used to join two nouns. In contrast, this example is composed by a pronoun and a verb - properly combining two different grammatical elements.