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Examples: Monib's flight leaves at 6:22 a.m. Please arrive by 12:30 sharp. She had a 7:00 p.m. deadline. Rule 15. Use noon and midnight rather than 12:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. Rule 16. Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine. Example: Forty-three people were injured in the train wreck. Twenty-three of them were hospitalized. Rule 17. Write out a number if it begins a sentence. Examples: Twenty-nine people won an award for helping their communities. That 29 people won an award for helping their communities was fantastic! OR That twenty-nine people won an award for helping their communities was fantastic! Chapter 6 Quizzes Grammar Pretest Correct the grammar error in each sentence. Answers are on page 116. Example: Shoshanafelt badly about failing the Geometry test. Correction: Shoshanafelt bad about failing the Geometry test. 112
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