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Your Guide to Dashes and Hyphens

Your Guide to Dashes and Hyphens

Cat diagrams to the rescue

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Rose Ernst
Apr 20, 2020
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Cat diagrams to the rescue

Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels

Have you ever been baffled by these levitating lines when writing?

Hyphen: -

En Dash: –

Em Dash: —

Sigh. Hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are often most problematic when they’re missing.

American (U.S.) English differences with other forms of English make matters worse. We’ll focus on American En…

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