What is a Dash? Explain.
Difficulty: Easy
Dash:
It is a punctuation mark(---) used:
in informal English, instead of a colon or semicolon, to indicate that what follows is a summary or conclusion of what has gone before:
Men were shouting women were screaming, children were crying --- it was chaos: you’ve admitted that you lied to me ---- how can I trust you again?
single or in pairs to separate comment or an afterthought from the rest of the sentence:
He knew nothing at all about it ----- or he said.
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