See also compound word, hyphen, punctuation This is a punctuation mark which signals either a pause or an aside or which separates dates. (The dash to link compound words like story-time or cue-systems is called a hyphen.) Considering pause first, in...

Expression (word, phrase, clause) inserted into a sentence from which it is structurally independent: Her new boyfriend—his name is Jacob—will be coming over tonight. In a wider sense interjections, vocatives, and parenthetic sentences are...

Note: This article contains special characters. A dash is a punctuation mark. It is longer than a hyphen and is used differently. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Common dashes There are...