What's the correct way of using hyphens while wrting time with words (e.g. 7:20)?
Really confused with how hyphens must be used in the following examples:
7:20 - "seven twenty" or "seven-twenty"?
7:25 - "seven twenty-five" or "seven-twenty-five"?
Solution 1:
We use a hyphen to separate the hour from the minutes, as in four-thirty, but not if the expression of minutes requires a hyphen, as in four thirty-five.
Authority: The Gregg Reference Manual by William A. Sabin. 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York. 2001. Used with the consent of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. p. 124.Authority: The Gregg Reference Manual by William A. Sabin. 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York. 2001. Used with the consent of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. p. 124.
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