Teabreak English lessonette
Understand the difference between the hyphen, en dash and em dash
The Hyphen
Used to divide words or join words.
The Em or Long Dash is used to emphasis a point at the end of a sentence, it also has the same purpose as rounded brackets or bracketing commas within a sentence.
The En or Short Dash is used to link numbers and words that are separate entities.
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