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Punctuation Flashcards

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Semi colon (;)

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-Show a long pause in a sentence
-Indicates opposite ideas
-It joins 2 main clauses where there isn’t a conjunction

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Hyphen (-)

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-Links prefixes to root words and joins two words together to make a compound word.

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Dash (-)

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-Can be used to give additional info in a sentence like a comma
-Separates thoughts from the main sentence
-Creates dramatic effect leading up to climax/anticlimax

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