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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute Vocabulary.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Catherine.
And today we're talking about hyphenations.
Hyphens – those little signs, like dashes, that we use in writing.
to join two words together?
Yes, like in old-fashioned.
There's always a hyphen between old and fashioned.
So, let's start with a clip from Brian.
He's a news reporter and he's reporting from a high school about an election.
Think about this question while you're listening.
How does Brian describe the young people at the school?
Here's Brian.
I asked some 18-year-old students at this secondary school how they're voting in this year's election.
They're all hard-working young people.
22 of them are undecided and are likely to make a last-minute decision.
But a sizeable group say today's politicians are not well respected and their attitudes are out of date.
Back to the studio.