🔤 Grammar Tip: Thinking About a Dash?

Dashes, when used sparingly and correctly, can be used to make your writing sound more sophisticated. Dashes indicate sudden changes in tone or thought within a sentence. They are used to emphasize the contradiction between ideas, for example:

I am under the impression that she has no instructions at all–and doesn’t need any.*

The exuberant–I should say lunatic–quality of his ravings electrified the crowd. *

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