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Dashes

Dashes. Dashes are used to set off or emphasize the content enclosed within dashes or the content that follows a dash. Dashes place more emphasis on this content than parentheses. Dash Examples.

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  1. Dashes Dashes are used to set off or emphasize the content enclosed within dashes or the content that follows a dash. Dashes place more emphasis on this content than parentheses.

  2. Dash Examples Perhaps one reason why the term has been so problematic—so resistant to definition, and yet so transitory in those definitions—is because of its multitude of applications. Judge Carswell—later to be nominated for the Supreme Court—had ruled against civil rights. There was only one thing to do—study till dawn.

  3. Dashes Continued Use a dash to set off an appositive phrase that already includes commas. An appositive is a word that adds explanatory or clarifying information to the noun that precedes it. The cousins—Tina, Todd, and Sam—arrived at the party together.

  4. Quiz Why does Heathcliff want to live at Wuthering Heights? How does Cathy react to Isabella’s infatuation with Heathcliff? In her illness, what does Cathy reveal to Mrs. Dean? In Isabella’s letter to Ellen Dean, what does she reveal about Heathcliff’s character? Whom does Heathcliff blame Cathy’s illness?

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