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Connect numbers and, occasionally, words: Her years at NAU, 1999 - 2003, were the most inspiring she'd experienced. Like mobs of traders scrambling over the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, these commas create an environment of clutter and confusion. 18.On the day of the wedding, the bride looked more beautiful than ever and I've known her for fifteen years. The punctuation marks highlighted in these task. A pair of em dashes can replace a pair of parentheses. Commas, Semi-colons, Colons, and Dashes. Found inside – Page 33In the first stanza, the initial clause is followed by a colon. ... semicolon, colon, dash, parentheses, hyphen, apostrophe, and quotation marks. They are designed to provide students with an opportunity to analyze sentences, and determine which was punctuated correctly. Proponents of each argue about which is the most understandable to modern readers. Found inside – Page 265The rules for the colon , semicolon , dash , parenthesis , brackets , and the ... forms , are the two coöperating factors in all intellectual progress . Punctuation - Dashes and Parentheses. �;��3�K(y^�S��L���a�2������4AvA>> ��Y��Mҕ��AO�~Tvso��}c�!��?U���_���! c�IX�q~���8!��ϧ����I�KK���������t��P��?�W ���\�:==�>e�b����y2s���&�ç��s~��2�����8����y�>�=L�8��y�|~jfl�|�iY�:]aj� \҂�����H��E(c�����oQ&/�V�҈cE�.�^�Gv^uO��
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