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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Can you tell me if this is right?

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00I have a sentence that seems rather crudely constructed (maybe, sounds refined to some). Can you check why the underlined area is constructed as it is and used the words at they have.02br
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01i00Last night she told me she has fallen in love with me 01u00- and herein02u00 lies the problem02i00.02br
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00I know what he is saying but the sentence construction seems to be rather ingenious.0-
  

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0I don't see anything very peculiar about it. 01i00Herein02i00 means 01i00in this place or thing or document02i00, and I think that it is in the realm of language use to apply 01i00herein02i00 to a previous fact and its clause as well.02br
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00What is the problem that you see here?0-
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0Thank you. Can you use a dash and then, follow it up with a conjunctive "and"?02br
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00Is it an acceptable sentence structure?0-
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0Yes. The '01i00m-dash02i00' is becoming more and more common in all but the most formal writing. You'll see it a lot in newspapers-- and in my posts (where its keyboard equivalent is a double hyphen). As the m-dash is not so formal, you can follow it up with anything reasonable, I think. I would agree that a more careful writer would see no need for the m-dash in your
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0 Thank you. Yes, I feel you are very stylistically oriented. 0-
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0By the way, what is "m-dash"?0-
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0An m-dash separates phrases or other large sentence parts01b01i00-- like this02i02b00.02br
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00An n-dash separates e.g. dates or times: 01b00 01i00open 9 - 502i02b00.02br
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00A hyphen separates word parts: 01b01i00helter-skelter02i02b0
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