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Dash

In this lesson you will learn the definition of a dash and study the usage of dashes.
Dash Definition
  • A dash looks like this:
en dash –, em dash —, and quotation dash ―
  • A dash is:
  • used as a "strong" separator where a comma is not enough
  • different from a hyphen
Dash Examples
"As I ran, I saw — My Gosh! — no one was following." 
 
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