How Do You Choose the Right Punctuation? Emphasis Is Your Clue
Office Dynamics
MARCH 2, 2019
A subscriber to my ezine Add Power to Your Pen asked, “Should I put spaces before/after a dash?” Getting on a roll, I answered a different question: when to use a dash vs. commas vs. parentheses to offset phrases in your sentences? The answer will be useful to professional administrators or anyone who writes. Of these punctuation choices—dashes, commas, or parentheses—how do you select the one to use?
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