I'm just learning about em dashes and en dashes, hyphens I get.
Here's my question, has the em dash replaced the comma in writing? It's not something I remember learning in school so I've been reading up on the correct usage and now returning to the begging of my novel to edit out my commas. When I read proper grammar articles it seems as if the em dash is a replacement for commas and parenthesis. I would like an editor or someone knowledgeable with this to tell me if a piece of work is filled with comma's are the commas mostly replaced?
Or is there over use of the em dash? I'm not to worried about the en dash, it's more the em dash that has me a bit overwhelmed if that is the appropriate term to use.
ok thank you for anyone who can shed some light on the issue I'll be dashing along now lol
Here's my question, has the em dash replaced the comma in writing? It's not something I remember learning in school so I've been reading up on the correct usage and now returning to the begging of my novel to edit out my commas. When I read proper grammar articles it seems as if the em dash is a replacement for commas and parenthesis. I would like an editor or someone knowledgeable with this to tell me if a piece of work is filled with comma's are the commas mostly replaced?
Or is there over use of the em dash? I'm not to worried about the en dash, it's more the em dash that has me a bit overwhelmed if that is the appropriate term to use.
ok thank you for anyone who can shed some light on the issue I'll be dashing along now lol
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