Select the correctly capitalized and hyphenated sentence:
A) The patient is a well developed, well nourished white male, in no acute distress.
B) The patient is a well-developed, well-nourished White male, in no acute distress.
C) The patient is a well-developed, well-nourished white male, in no acute distress.
D) The patient is a well developed, well nourished White male, in no acute distress.
Answer is C
Right.
To select the correctly capitalized and hyphenated sentence from the options provided, we need to follow a few rules:
1. Capitalize proper nouns, such as names and specific places.
2. Hyphenate compound adjectives that come before a noun.
3. Capitalize racial or ethnic designations when they refer to specific groups.
Now let's analyze each option:
A) The sentence is not correctly capitalized since "white" and "male" are not capitalized when referring to race or ethnicity. Additionally, the compound adjectives "well developed" and "well nourished" should be hyphenated.
B) This sentence correctly capitalizes the racial designation "White," but it fails to hyphenate the compound adjectives "well-developed" and "well-nourished."
C) This option correctly capitalizes "white" when referring to the patient's race, and it also correctly hyphenates the compound adjectives "well-developed" and "well-nourished." Therefore, this sentence is correctly capitalized and hyphenated.
D) Similar to option A, the capitalization of "white" is incorrect here. Furthermore, the compound adjectives "well developed" and "well-nourished" are not hyphenated.
Based on these rules, the correct answer is option C:
The patient is a well-developed, well-nourished white male, in no acute distress.