How To Use Dashes In Quotes

You have to use an em dash when crediting.

How to use dashes in quotes. When the quote is interrupted you might decide to put the dash inside. There are three forms of dashes. Use a longer em dash to join independent clauses with words like and but as or and for. To properly use a dash in an english sentence start by identifying which dash you should use. Or or squiggly is a grapheme with several uses.

Conversely use a shorter en dash to indicate a range of numbers like 10 15. And when you do place them around the interruption and outside the quotation marks of the dialogue. Whether you want the dash inside or outside quotation marks when there is an interruption is really a matter of personal preference. 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 pair of dashes.

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. Using dashes to credit quotations you can use an em dash to credit a quote to someone. There used to be a real me but i had it surgically removed peter sellers 1925 1980 note. Em en and the double hyphen. Dashes add drama parentheses whisper.

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. The most common types of dashes are the en dash and the em dash. A single dash can emphasize material at the beginning or end of a sentence. The tilde ˈtɪldə ˈtɪldi. There were so many different choices blue purple yellow orange that i had a hard time picking just one color.

It s an em dash before peter sellers and an en dash between 1925 and 1980 note. 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. Place em dashes around non essential information or a list in the middle of a sentence like you would with commas. 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.