Isabel WilkersonFrom Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.
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The hyphen is a punctuation mark that was invented in the nineteenth century. The word comes from the Greek hypos (“under”) and meros (“part of speech”). Hyphens are used to link two or more words or parts of words that do not belong together. A hyphen can be used to make it easier for readers to understand writing where things like an adjective, adverb, etc.
connect two different words. For example, a sentence might read: "The Hollywood actor has a daughter who works as a lawyer." In this sentence, the actor and daughter do not need to be connected by a hyphen because they are two separate words, but in a sentence where they have an important relationship their combined form must be separated by a hyphen. In addition to being used as a punctuation mark, the hyphen is also used as a kind of em dash as well as an en dash.
Source: The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of Americas Great Migration
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