"I will pray for you about that -- building a good reading habit."
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"I will pray for you about that -- building a good reading habit."
I am wondering if this is a correct use of the em dash.
Thank you.
Best wishes
PBF
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Seems OK to me. Two things, though: 1. When you render speech within quotation marks, pretty much anything goes that will make the right sound in the reader's mind.
- Seems OK to me.
- Two things, though: 1.
- When you render speech within quotation marks, pretty much anything goes that will make the right sound in the reader's mind.
- The rules out in the text are more stringent.
- I say that because it is easy to get addicted to em dashes.
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Seems OK to me. Two things, though:
1. When you render speech within quotation marks, pretty much anything goes that will make the right sound in the reader's mind. The rules out in the text are more stringent. I say that because it is easy to get addicted to em dashes. It is often better to find another way to write a thing, with words instead of punctuation.
2. You can probably m
0If "I will pray for you about building a good reading habit" is accepted as correct, yes — although you have not actually typed an em dash, as I suppose you know.
I have slight reservations about the idea of "praying for someone about building a good reading habit". For one thing, "a good reading habit" seems to me a rather mundane thing to be the subject of a prayer. I guess opinions ma
0My feeling about such dashes is that they often indicate that the writer is leaving it up to the reader to figure out what the writer means. This can be annoying.
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