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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Comma or Hyphen?

Do I need to use comma or hyphen?

...else has, Margot's laptop...

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...else has -- Margot's laptop...

David Kim becomes desperate when his 16-year-old daughter Margot disappears and an immediate police investigation leads nowhere. He soon decides to search the one place that no one else has, Margot's laptop. Hoping to trace her digital footprints, David contacts her friends and looks at photos and videos for any possible clues to her whereabouts.

  

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Be careful - a hyphen is a short dash between two parts of a longer word; what you are referring to is a dash. I would use a dash in the scenario you have, or possibly a colon. I think a comma would not be suited to the task.

  • Be careful - a hyphen is a short dash between two parts of a longer word; what you are referring to is a dash.
  • I would use a dash in the scenario you have, or possibly a colon.
  • I think a comma would not be suited to the task.
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Be careful - a hyphen is a short dash between two parts of a longer word; what you are referring to is a dash.

I would use a dash in the scenario you have, or possibly a colon. I think a comma would not be suited to the task.

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