Punctuation

Writers, editors, and proofreaders need to know the ins and outs of this sometimes-forgotten dash, which adds variety to your punctuation—something that is always welcome. It can replace pairs of commas, parentheses, colons, and semicolons; but when is it correct to use? What is an em dash? In my post on en-dashes, I noted that …

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Polish your writing with this often-missed punctuation mark. Here’s my first post on punctuation, and I’m starting with a mechanical, nuts-and-bolts topic that is useful to writers and proofreaders. It’s also a topic that was a revelation to me—I’d never run across explicit teaching about dashes in my education or teaching until I did a …

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