Looking through some students’ scripts on Wednesday, I discovered there is a need to revisit the issue of the uses of the hyphen (-) and dash (—). Many still find it difficult to differentiate between the two in terms of their symbols and uses. They mix them up the way they do the colon and semi-colon as well as the latter (semi-colon) and full stop.
The challenge such fellows have handling the hyphen and dash stems from the similarity…
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