How To Use Dashes In Quotes

There used to be a real me but i had it surgically removed peter sellers 1925 1980 note.

How to use dashes in quotes. Where parentheses indicate that the reader should put less emphasis on the enclosed material dashes indicate that the reader should pay more attention to the material between the dashes. The name of the character comes from portuguese and spanish from the latin titulus meaning title or superscription though the term tilde has evolved and now has a different meaning in linguistics. Em en and the double hyphen. Use a pair of dashes. To set off a series within a phrase you can also use dashes to separate a series or a list in the middle of your sentence.

It s an em dash before peter sellers and an en dash between 1925 and 1980 note. If your thinking is that the dash is not part of the original quote then put the dash outside the quotes. When the quote is interrupted you might decide to put the dash inside. Dashes add drama parentheses whisper. A good way to remember the difference between these two dashes is to visualize the en dash as the length of the letter n and the em dash as the length of the letter m.

To properly use a dash in an english sentence start by identifying which dash you should use. Place em dashes around non essential information or a list in the middle of a sentence like you would with commas. There were so many different choices blue purple yellow orange that i had a hard time picking just one color. And when you do place them around the interruption and outside the quotation marks of the dialogue. The most common types of dashes are the en dash and the em dash.

The tilde ˈtɪldə ˈtɪldi. Whether you want the dash inside or outside quotation marks when there is an interruption is really a matter of personal preference. Using dashes to credit quotations you can use an em dash to credit a quote to someone. You have to use an em dash when crediting. Conversely use a shorter en dash to indicate a range of numbers like 10 15.

A single dash can emphasize material at the beginning or end of a sentence. Use a longer em dash to join independent clauses with words like and but as or and for. Dashes are used to separate groups of words not to separate parts of words like a hyphen does. Now not to confuse you but to show a true exception to the rule a dialogue tag can interrupt a sentence of dialogue. Dashes can be used for emphasis in several ways.