Hyphens to Avoid Ambiguity

Hyphens to Avoid Ambiguity - Year 5 and 6 Year 5 and 6 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation; Pupils should be taught to: use hyphens to avoid ambiguity [for example, man eating shark versus man-eating shark, or recover versus re-cover]. In this upper KS2 English teaching resource, pupils learn how to use hyphens to improve their writing by avoiding ambiguity and making their writing clearer and more concise as per the year 5 and 6 curriculum objective listed above.