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| | You might be wondering why I've paired the em dash with the ellipsis. Doesn't the em dash usually get grouped with the en dash and the hyphen?
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| | Unless - and I admit this is possible - you're trying to annoy the reader, try not to fall in love - or even in like - with the em dash. So many manuscripts I edit suffer from inflammation of the em dash - it's rampant - as if these little buggers multiply like cockroaches....
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| | The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark. Depending on the context, the em dash can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons?in each case to slightly different effect.
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| Here's some advice on grammar that I've seen a lot, both online and in print: the notion that the subject is the person or thing that is the "doer" of the verb in a sentence. Turned around a bit, t...