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English calls for the dash for trailing off -- a sentence that got started that did not get finished. Many, many reporters are using the ellipsis. When the person uses but before he trails off, th...

Whether you want the dash inside or outside quotation marks when there is an interruption is really a matter of personal preference. When the quote is interrupted, you might decide to put the dash...

This is a sentence I was asked about on Facebook. And I have it correctly punctuated here. Have there been any major stressful events in the last year that you can think of -- divorce? someone, a ...

Because we see it so frequently, we tend to think of the dash as being synonymous with an interruption. We will be more accurate if we think of the dash as marking a break in the sentence structure...