USES
This represents TO or THROUGH
What is an en dash?
This sentence uses what type of punctuation: "Please read pages 60-80 before class tomorrow"
What is an en dash?
T/F: AI wrote this sentence
"She submitted a well-researched proposal ahead of the deadline."
What is True?
This indicates a change in direction
What is an em dash?
This sentence uses what type of punctuation: "She was twenty-one years old."
What is a hyphen?
T/F: AI wrote this sentence:
"I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–"
What is False?
*Title of a poem written by Emily Dickinson
This can be used to link elements in a compound word
What is a hyphen?
This sentence uses what type of punctuation:"I never thought he was attractive–no one did–because of his attitude."
BONUS POINTS (100): What kind of punctuation could you use in place of the one above?
What is an em dash?
BONUS A: What are commas?
T/F AI wrote this sentence:
"Sometimes nothing would turn into something — wood-tip Swishers stuffed with what passed for weed back then, off-campus parties that didn’t mind a couple of high school kids — but always, ultimately, the night would end the same way it began."
What is False?
*Written by Peter Rubin, see Works Cited Slide
This famous poet was known for her use of the em dash
Who is Emily Dickinson?/ What is the Dickinson Dash?
This sentence could use a/an _____:
"Are you free from the 20th to the 1st?"
What is an en dash?
T/F: AI wrote this sentence
"The architect—who, after years of quietly challenging the firm’s rigid traditions, had learned to disguise radical ideas as minor revisions—introduced a deceptively modest change that, once approved, irrevocably altered how the entire city moved through space."
What is True?