ameleasmith2 ameleasmith2 12-05-2017 English contestada help please! Which best identifies a rule for diving words with hyphens? Always divide words after the first letter or before the last letter. Never divide a one-syllable word. Instead of dividing words, begin with the whole word on a new line of text. When you are dividing words, be sure to break up the letters in a syllable by separating them with hyphens.