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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

1. Because recent developments have taken place, the nation's future workforce may include an increasing number of older workers. ok 2. Mandatory retirement has become a thing of the past , and the federal government has reduced or completely eliminated earnings restrictions on Social...

Forgive me, but what do you mean by a “dash.” All the examples here show two hyphens. These are not dashes. There are three types of dashes, namely Hyphens, Em Dashes and En Dashes The hyphen is the shortest of the three and is used most commonly to combine words (compounds such as...

I like the dash. It lets one add emphasis and (dramatic) pauses. I think the summary in Webster's Third New International Dictionary is excellent: 7. THE DASH 7.0 In its function in writing and in the speech intonation to which it corresponds, the dash is similar to the comma and the colon,...

To whom , not For whom Colon, not comma after concern for the patent , not for patent spell out small numbers: three in a good , not within good to European, not at European no hyphen: North American no capitals: the construction site gained in not gained into the no...

Sorry to be so long, but I have been looking for a good comprehensive internet source on dashes; all the information seems to be in bits and pieces, and some of it is quite contradictory. Here is a good excerpt, however, from the Get it Write website: 'A number of you have written to ask us...