Grammar: the use of hypen
I have these books- Mackbeth, She Stoops to Conquer, and Mrs. Dalloway. Is the above- given sentence correct grammatically?
I think this sentence should be said like, " I have the following books- Mackbeth, She Stoops to Conquer, and Mrs.Dalloway."
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First of all, the punctuation character that you are asking about is a dash (properly – or —), not a hyphen (-). It has been typed as a hyphen character. Secondly, if you use spaces with a dash, you need a space before and after, so your sentence should look like this: I have these books – Macbeth , She Stoops to Conquer , and Mrs Dalloway .
- First of all, the punctuation character that you are asking about is a dash (properly – or —), not a hyphen (-).
- It has been typed as a hyphen character.
- Secondly, if you use spaces with a dash, you need a space before and after, so your sentence should look like this: I have these books – Macbeth , She Stoops to Conquer , and Mrs Dalloway .
- It is good style to put the titles in italics.
- Note also the spelling "Macbeth".
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First of all, the punctuation character that you are asking about is a dash (properly – or —), not a hyphen (-). It has been typed as a hyphen character. Secondly, if you use spaces with a dash, you need a space before and after, so your sentence should look like this:
I have these books – Macbeth, She Stoops to Conquer, and Mrs Dalloway.
It is good style to pu
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