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Dashes

Today you are going to learn about dashes an important part of English grammar.
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Grammar: Dashes

Definition of a dash.
  • 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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From YOUR Teacher: Dashes

Dashes are not used very often in English but still it it important to recognize and understand them.
 
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