I found this yesterday. There are three different kinds of dashes. This explains them and shows examples of how to use them.
Here they are and how to get them (on a PC)...
- Dash, just hit the dash key.
– En dash, Alt +0150
— Em dash, Alt +0151
I will be checking your blogs for proper punctuation from now on. There will be consequences.
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Interesting.
The em dash is new to me.
Dash it all!
All very interesting, but I'm confident I won't remember it two days from now.
Mz Smarty Pants over here. Don't be surprised if, when you check my blog, to see six or seven em dashes. I use it so much that instead of Alt +0151, I set up an autocorrect. I type em and the dash automatically inserts.
Sue - The title says it for me. Who knew? Apparently, Shirley did.
Deb - Yeah, but which one?
Kathy - Ummmm, remember what?
Shirley - Well well well well WELL well well. Mz Smarty Pants indeed!
My Satnav is a - --- -- - --- --, is that spelled correctly?
When I write, I start with a lot of punctuations in the margin, including various dashes, and then I use them in a random order in the text when I'm finished. Sometimes, I have some spare ones which are not used. - ? ,, " !
God bless.
Anon - Are you selling TOMTOM's?
Victor - You can't do that Victor. If you're finished, then nothing more can go in.
I not only won't remember any of this, I won't use any of this and I'm sure I'll have consequences for all my improper punctuation and flagrant disregard for the Rules of the written word. *Winks*
Dawn - I've forgotten all of the examples already. But I remember the cool different lines and the codes to print them.
Thanks for this cool post. Do the Oxford comma next.
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