How To Use Dashes In Quotes

Using dashes to credit quotations you can use an em dash to credit a quote to someone.

How to use dashes in quotes. Dashes add drama parentheses whisper. To properly use a dash in an english sentence start by identifying which dash you should use. Use a pair of dashes. If your thinking is that the dash is not part of the original quote then put the dash outside the quotes. The tilde ˈtɪldə ˈtɪldi.

The most common types of dashes are the en dash and the em dash. Whether you want the dash inside or outside quotation marks when there is an interruption is really a matter of personal preference. Dashes can be used for emphasis in several ways. There are three forms of dashes. And when you do place them around the interruption and outside the quotation marks of the dialogue.

There used to be a real me but i had it surgically removed peter sellers 1925 1980 note. Now not to confuse you but to show a true exception to the rule a dialogue tag can interrupt a sentence of dialogue. Use a longer em dash to join independent clauses with words like and but as or and for. Or or squiggly is a grapheme with several uses. Em en and the double hyphen.

When the quote is interrupted you might decide to put the dash inside. To set off a series within a phrase you can also use dashes to separate a series or a list in the middle of your sentence. You have to use an em dash when crediting. A single dash can emphasize material at the beginning or end of a sentence. Where parentheses indicate that the reader should put less emphasis on the enclosed material dashes indicate that the reader should pay more attention to the material between the dashes.

Dashes are used to separate groups of words not to separate parts of words like a hyphen does. It s longer than a hyphen and is commonly used to indicate a range or a pause. There were so many different choices blue purple yellow orange that i had a hard time picking just one color. A good way to remember the difference between these two dashes is to visualize the en dash as the length of the letter n and the em dash as the length of the letter m. Conversely use a shorter en dash to indicate a range of numbers like 10 15.