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| ♠ Uchiha Itachi | May 16 2009, 08:15 AM |
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Dashes - Before and after comments, questions, exclamations, or other interrupters that you write into a sentence to give information or add extra emphasis Two rooms -- the cafeteria and the library -- were flooded. The mayor -- he's my aunt's boyfriend -- came to the assembly today. - To introduce a list of items The teacher said that these were the five most important steps in doing our homework -- write it down, take it home, do it, bring it back, hand it in. **TIP: You can use dashes for special emphasis ... just don't overdo it with overuse. Use VARIETY in your writing. - After an interrupted or unfinished statement or thought I knew it couldn't possibly be Nita, and yet -- Ellipses (My favorite ...) - Ellipses are three or four dots in a row. They replace words that have been left out. Use three dots (...) to show that words have been left out in the middle of a passage. "I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up ... of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." -Martin Luther King (Excerpt from "I Have a Dream" speech.) - Use four dots if the words left out come at the end o the sentence: "To be or not to be ...." -William Shakespeare |
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