What does a semicolon hold together?
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What does a semicolon hold together?
The piece of chocolate cake which probably has a million calories in it was
delicious.Charles Dickens who was great writer in the late 19th Century is the author
of Little Dorrit. The guy that my old roommate
married is super boring.
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*Hyphens –and Dashes —
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Use a Hyphen to:*make certain compound words
great-grandfather six-year-old son-in-law
*create new words using prefixes and suffixes
ex-boyfriend self-assuredmid-September all-inclusiveanti-American all-Americanpre-Civil War mid-1980s
president-elect
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Use a Hyphen to:*join two or more words serving as a single
adjective before a nouna one-way street an easy-going dudechocolate-covered peanuts all-powerful ruler well-known author Lea’s fur-lined coatbook-smart student street-smart lady
*join letters and nounsx-axis T-shirt G-rated
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Use a Hyphen to:*between written-out fractions
four-tenths seven thirty-seconds (7/32) *in series
and with compound numbers (21-99)The socks come in two-, four-, or six-pair
packages.Our teacher is sixty-three years old.*to show life span (in parenthesis)
Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) was an American rapper and actor.
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The dash is sort of like a comma.
The difference is in emphasis:
use a dash when a comma might not be strong enough
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Use a Dash to:*mark a sudden break in thought, add extra
information
But now that Gale has gone to work in the coalmines—and I have nothing to do all day—
I’ve taken over the job.
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Use a Dash:*to emphasize a word, a phrase, or a clause
Katniss was much more than a victor—she was a rebel.
There was only one way out of this—the berries
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Use a Dash:*to show when speech is interrupted
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*ApostrophesThe high commas
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Use an apostrophe:*with contractions
You’re = you areYour = possession
They’re = they areTheir = possession
There = where?
It’s = it isIts = possession
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Use an apostrophe:*use to form the plurals of
letters, numbers, signs‘+ s
A’s and B’s1’s ad 4’s
No if’s, and’s, or but’s+’s and -’s
Let’s go over the dos and don’ts of grammar…
Also…I’m just hangin’ out here.
I graduated high school in ’09.
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1 tattoo 2 tattoos 12 tattoos
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1 sign 2 signs 12 signs
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