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Johnny11 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Correct usage of dashes and colons.

0I have got the following sentence:02br
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00Diabetes: Are There New Treatments Available?02br
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00Is it grammaticali correct? Or would it be accurate to use:02br
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00Diabetes – Are There New Treatments Available? or Diabetes - Are There New Treatments Available?02br
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00I am a little confused over the use of the hyphen and the em dash in english language. I would appreciate any help.02br
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00Thank you in advance.0-
  

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0In this kind of situation, the m-dash is merely less formal than the colon. Either can be used here. 02br 02br 00PS: I see this is your first post, Johnny.

— Mister Micawber

  • 0In this kind of situation, the m-dash is merely less formal than the colon.
  • Either can be used here.
  • 02br 02br 00PS: I see this is your first post, Johnny.
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0In this kind of situation, the m-dash is merely less formal than the colon. Either can be used here. The hyphen, on the other hand, serves only to separate compounded words like01i00 early-morning exercise02i00 or as a line break between syllables of a single word.02br
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00PS: I see this is your first post, Johnny. Welcome to English Forums.0-
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0Thanks, your answer helped me out 050010id1
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