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00 Please tell me how these uses of a dash is justified. Normally, it seems a dash is used to pull an element to the main clause but in this case, the part being pulled is not clear. I think you can use this pattern: 02 br
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00 Courage and compassion -- the two qualities that mark a good person are the ones that most people are born with. 02 br
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00 But these? 02 br
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00 For Hegacy (might have typed this name wrong) to go to court and to ask such a request -- it never happened in the last 1400 years. 02 br
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00 Whoever does the cleaning -- please let me know so that I could thank him. 0-
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00 Please tell me how these uses of a dash is justified. Normally, it seems a dash is used to pull an element to the main clause but in this case, the part being pulled is not clear. I think you can use this pattern: 02 br
02 br
00 Courage and compassion -- the two qualities that mark a good person are the ones that most people are born with. 02 br
02 br
00 But these? 02 br
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00 For Hegacy (might have typed this name wrong) to go to court and to ask such a request -- it never happened in the last 1400 years. 02 br
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00 Whoever does the cleaning -- please let me know so that I could thank him. 0-
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02 br 00 Justified? Well, all I can say is that they work OK in your examples. M-dashes are a relatively informal but increasingly popular-- and rather vague-- connective punctuation.
- 02 br 00 Justified?
- Well, all I can say is that they work OK in your examples.
- M-dashes are a relatively informal but increasingly popular-- and rather vague-- connective punctuation.
- " [Chicago Manual of Style].
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00 Justified? Well, all I can say is that they work OK in your examples. M-dashes are a relatively informal but increasingly popular-- and rather vague-- connective punctuation. They are used "to denote a sudden break in thought that causes an abrupt change in sentence structure." [Chicago Manual of Style]. They usually replace parentheses, but can also subsitute-- in some
00 Justified? Well, all I can say is that they work OK in your examples. M-dashes are a relatively informal but increasingly popular-- and rather vague-- connective punctuation. They are used "to denote a sudden break in thought that causes an abrupt change in sentence structure." [Chicago Manual of Style]. They usually replace parentheses, but can also subsitute-- in some
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01 i 02 i 00 Have a look at this link. 02 br
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00 You'll find an item called 01 i 00 Excessive use of the dash. 02 i 02 br
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01 i 02 i 00 Have a look at this link. 02 br
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00 You'll find an item called 01 i 00 Excessive use of the dash. 02 i 02 br
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01 cite 10 Clive 12 cite 12 br
11 i 11 font 11 b 10 The dash means, "F*** it, let the reader figure it out. I'm too lazy to come up with the correct punctuations." 12 b 12 font 12 i 12 br
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