What does a semicolon hold together?

The piece of chocolate cake which probably has a million calories in it was

delicious.Charles Dickens who was great writer in the late 19th Century is the author

of Little Dorrit. The guy that my old roommate

married is super boring.

*Hyphens –and Dashes —

:-)

Use a Hyphen to:*make certain compound words

great-grandfather six-year-old son-in-law

*create new words using prefixes and suffixes

ex-boyfriend self-assuredmid-September all-inclusiveanti-American all-Americanpre-Civil War mid-1980s

president-elect

Use a Hyphen to:*join two or more words serving as a single

adjective before a nouna one-way street an easy-going dudechocolate-covered peanuts all-powerful ruler well-known author Lea’s fur-lined coatbook-smart student street-smart lady

*join letters and nounsx-axis T-shirt G-rated

Use a Hyphen to:*between written-out fractions

four-tenths seven thirty-seconds (7/32) *in series

and with compound numbers (21-99)The socks come in two-, four-, or six-pair

packages.Our teacher is sixty-three years old.*to show life span (in parenthesis)

Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) was an American rapper and actor.

The dash is sort of like a comma.

The difference is in emphasis:

use a dash when a comma might not be strong enough

Use a Dash to:*mark a sudden break in thought, add extra

information

But now that Gale has gone to work in the coalmines—and I have nothing to do all day—

I’ve taken over the job.

Use a Dash:*to emphasize a word, a phrase, or a clause

Katniss was much more than a victor—she was a rebel.

There was only one way out of this—the berries

Use a Dash:*to show when speech is interrupted

*ApostrophesThe high commas

Use an apostrophe:*with contractions

You’re = you areYour = possession

They’re = they areTheir = possession

There = where?

It’s = it isIts = possession

Use an apostrophe:*use to form the plurals of

letters, numbers, signs‘+ s

A’s and B’s1’s ad 4’s

No if’s, and’s, or but’s+’s and -’s

Let’s go over the dos and don’ts of grammar…

Also…I’m just hangin’ out here.

I graduated high school in ’09.

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