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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Punctuations

Hi.
Why would you put a sentence between two '-' symbols?
  

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These "symbols," as you call them, are punctuation known as quotation marks. They are an integral and important part of English grammar, style, and usage. Here is a link to an explanation of what they are, why they are used, and when to use them.

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  • These "symbols," as you call them, are punctuation known as quotation marks.
  • They are an integral and important part of English grammar, style, and usage.
  • Here is a link to an explanation of what they are, why they are used, and when to use them.
  • html Here is an additional link that explains single versus double quotation marks.
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These "symbols," as you call them, are punctuation known as quotation marks. They are an integral and important part of English grammar, style, and usage.

Here is a link to an explanation of what they are, why they are used, and when to use them.
http://www.informatics.
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Thank you for your links.
But I didn't mean the quotations.I meant hyphens.I just used quotations to delineate the hyphen and stress the fact I mean '-' as a character, as we do in programming.
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I misunderstood.
Are you certain you mean hyphen and not dash? There is a difference.

Here is a link to the correct use of dashes.
http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/a/semicolondash.htm

Here is a link to the correct use of hyphens.
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