Where should the hyphen be placed?

an ex high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the university of kansas.

a- an ex high school standout, he enjoyed a-stellar college career at the university of kansas.

b- an ex-high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the university of kansas.

c- an ex high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college-career at the university of kansas.

d- an ex high-school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the university of kansas

B- An ex-high school standout, he enjoyed a stellar college career at the University of Kansas.

An hyphen is a punctuation mark, that is used to join two related words or to break a single word into parts or placed between words which have different meaning. The use of hyphen is called as hyphenation. Here, the hyphen should be present in between ex-high school, which is describing a relation of person with the high school, means that the person was previous scholar of the high school.

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