Where needed, please add hyphens and/or dashes to the sentences below

a. In an attempt to pull himself out of debt, John cooked up another one of his get rich quick
schemes.
b. All three victims Rhonda, Caroline and Henry were killed in the fire.
c. Lester was a soft spoken man whose words were always carefully chosen.
d. Everything about the man the scent of his cologne, the way he held his cigarette and the sound
of his voice reminded me of my father.
e. Patricia was a well educated woman of about twenty eight years of age.

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Answers:a. In an attempt to pull himself out of debt, John cooked up another one of his get-rich-quick schemes. [See “Hyphen”: “Use a hyphen to join compound modifiers that precede a noun unless that modifier is preceded by very or an –ly adverb.”] b. All three victims—Rhonda, Caroline and Henry—were killed in the fire. [See “Dash”: “Use dashes to set off a long clause or a phrase that is in apposition to the main clause, when it makes the information clearer and more distinctive.”] c. Lester was a soft-spoken man whose words were always carefully chosen. [See “Hyphen”: “Use a hyphen to join compound modifiers that precede a noun unless that modifier is preceded by very or an –ly adverb.”] d. Everything about the man—the scent of his cologne, the way he held his cigarette and the sound of his voice—reminded me of my father. [See “Dash”: “Use dashes to set off a long clause or a phrase that is in apposition to the main clause, when it makes the information clearer and more distinctive.”] e. Patricia was a well-educated woman of about twenty-eight years of age. [See “Hyphen”: “Use a hyphen to join compound modifiers that precede a noun unless that modifier is preceded by very or an –ly adverb.”]