Question
My father was a hard working man but didn't earn much money.
Question 9 options:
A)
add a hyphen after hard
B)
correctly punctuated
C)
close up hard working
D)
add a comma after hard
Are you sure or just guessing?!
hard-working man
The correct answer is C) close up hard working.
To determine the correct answer, we need to look at the sentence and consider the rules of punctuation and formatting. In this sentence, we have the phrase "hard working" describing the noun "man." According to the rules of punctuation, when such a phrase comes before the noun it modifies, it should be written with a hyphen to indicate that it functions as a compound adjective.
Therefore, option A) "add a hyphen after hard" is incorrect because it is suggesting the use of a hyphen after "hard," which is already correct. Option B) "correctly punctuated" is also incorrect because the original sentence is not correctly punctuated. Option D) "add a comma after hard" is incorrect because a comma is not needed in this context.
Option C) "close up hard working" is the correct answer because it is suggesting that the phrase "hard working" should be written as one unit without a space, thus creating the compound adjective "hardworking" to modify "man."
It is just fine as is.
If you were to add a comma it would be after man.
However that is not one of your choices and it is unnecessary anyway.