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Tinanam0102 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

How to use "dash"

Hi teachers,

As a wave of strikes at Honda and protests over worker suicides at Foxconn led the firms - two of China's major foreign manufacturers- to offer workers significant pay raises, China watchers are wondering whether the country is facing the end of cheap labor.

Can the dashes be replaced by commas?

Do you say "the opening dash" and "the closing dash"?

For quotation marks, do you say "open quotation mark" and "close quotation mark" as in "Do you like a cup of tea"?

Thank you very much in advance.

Tinanam
  

Top answer

- Yes. - "m-dash", actually, but yes. -- Yes.

— Mister Micawber

  • - Yes.
  • - "m-dash", actually, but yes.
  • -- Yes.
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Can the dashes be replaced by commas?- Yes.

Do you say "the opening dash" and "the closing dash"?- "m-dash", actually, but yes.

For quotation marks, do you say "open quotation mark" and "close quotation mark" as in "Do you like a cup of tea"?-- Yes.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thank you for helping me. What is "m-dash"?

Tinanam
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M-dash is the dash between parenthetical phrase and main text
N-dash is the dash between e.g. dates: August 8 - 12.
Hyphen is the dash between parts of a word or other compound.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thank you for your explanations.

Happy New Year.

Tinanam
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