![]() ![]() ![]() So theĭash is in the same place as another type of Use number two for theĭash is that they can act like parentheses in pairs. So that's use number one, it can interrupt the But when you're using dashes, generally, you don't put spaces in between them, in between words. The Chicago Manual of Style that Khan Academy uses, it would just go word,ĭash, word, then a space. Have a space before or after your dash, is that right? - Right. The way that it connects these two things together. But it has a slightlyĭifferent connotation. Two independent clauses the same way the dash but isĬonnecting those two clauses. "I ran to the bus stop, theīus had already driven away." Right, so, like, you know, comma, but we connect those Right, the dash is uniting these two independent clauses. Though, grammatically, those two sentences are identical, right, "I ran to the bus stop, comma, "but the bus had already driven away." Even though that's, technically, that means the exact same thing, "As I ran to the bus stop, dash, "but the bus had already driven away." This is kind of like an abrupt cutoff. The sentence keep flowing and the dash kind of ![]() And I'm gonna make up a word here, it feels more interrupty. You're totally could, you absolutely could useĪ comma instead of a dash. To interrupt the structure of this sentence. They can mark interruptions in the structure of a sentence, as in, "I ran to the bus stop-but the bus "had already driven away." So we're using this dash Gonna talk about dashes, what they are, what they do. And there is a differenceīetween the two of them, it's kind of confusing, but first we're just Later we're gonna talk about hyphens, which look like this, shoop. Gonna talk about dashes which is a piece of punctuation, looks kind of like this, shoop. ![]()
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