A hyphen ( - ) is used to link parts of a compound word. This includes most dual heritages (Mexican-American), and all words in a compound modifier except "very" and adverbs that end in "ly." (The ...

There will be no cutting and pasting kids! Phew Maisie! Here's a sentence you might see in a travel agent's. Maisie used the hyphen between the words 'all' and 'inclusive' to show the meaning is ...

They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when writing sentences.