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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Is the sentence below correct?

It seems like she doesn't have a life of her own - she is always babysitting her grandchildren and running errands for her children.


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anonymous It seems like she doesn't have a life of her own - she is always babysitting her grandchildren and running errands for her children. It is correct. The "space, hyphen, space" is one way of rendering an em dash in this sort of typing, and also in British English.

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  • anonymous It seems like she doesn't have a life of her own - she is always babysitting her grandchildren and running errands for her children.
  • It is correct.
  • The "space, hyphen, space" is one way of rendering an em dash in this sort of typing, and also in British English.
  • " With a period, it looks like this: "It seems like she doesn't have a life of her own.
  • " I find the em dash a bit heavy-handed.
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anonymousIt seems like she doesn't have a life of her own - she is always babysitting her grandchildren and running errands for her children.

It is correct. The "space, hyphen, space" is one way of rendering an em dash in this sort of typing, and also in British English. If that's what you were going for, it would look like this:

"It seems like she do

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