— Em Dash Flashcards
___can be used in place of commas, parentheses, or colons.
An em dash.
The em dash can take the place of the following punctuation marks:___
Commas, parentheses, or colons.
When using em dashes in place of parentheses, omit___
Surrounding punctuation.
To indicate missing portions of a word, whether unknown or intentionally omitted, use___
Two em dashes.
To indicate that an entire word is missing, use___
Two or three em dashes.
When using em dashes, between words and dashes, omit___.
Spaces.
To type an em dash, type___
Two hyphens.
To indicate interruption of a speaker, use___
An em dash.
To indicate self-interruption, use___
An em dash.
As a quotation dash, use___
An em dash.
To indicate omitted letters in a word (for the purposes of censorship or simply data anonymization), leave the start and end letters whilst replacing the middle letters with___
Em dashes.
