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Sentence Appositives: Dashes & Colons

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)April 13, 2013Leave a comment

OPEN WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SERIES OF APPOSITIVES, THEN A DASH AND A SUMMARIZING SUBJECT This pattern begins with a cluster of appositives. An appositive we may define as another naming for some noun.  After the appositive comes a dash, followed by a summarizing word.  These summarizing words may be: such, all those, these, these many,…

How to use Colons & Semicolons

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)April 28, 20111 Comment

Colons (:), semicolons (;), and dashes (-) can all be used to join two related ideas.  Using these punctuation marks properly will help to add variety to your comparisons. Colon Use a colon to draw attention to the words that come after it.  These words may be a list, or a restatement or description of…

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