Using words like ‘however’ within a sentence sometimes seems clunky and can make sentences hard to read. This is a clear explanation of using a semicolon to solve this problem.
Punctuation makes your writing more creative and effective – and nicer to read!
Using words like ‘however’ within a sentence sometimes seems clunky and can make sentences hard to read. This is a clear explanation of using a semicolon to solve this problem.
A reader asked about the difference between a minus symbol and an N-dash (thanks Tem). I had to do a bit of homework on this. Unicode (the standard for electronically encoding text information) has separate encoding for the minus sign, hyphen and N-dash. Below you can compare… Symbol hyphen minus sign N-dash M-dash – − [...]
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
-Geoffrey Rush
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