Dashes

What do dashes add to sentences?

• Drama

• Whisper

• less emphasis

• less attention

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Dash or no dash?

• I've been dreaming of my favorite ice cream all day.

• I've been dreaming of my favorite — ice cream all day.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

How should the below sentence be punctuated?

Newburyport a small town in Massachusetts is the place she calls home.

• Newburyport- a small town in Massachusetts- is the place she calls home.

• Newburyport — small town in Massachusetts — is the place she calls home.

• Newburyport —a small town in Massachusetts is the place she calls home.

• Newburyport a small town in Massachusetts - is the place she calls home.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Which of the following is NOT a function of the dash?

• Interrupt sentence structure

• A pair of dashes acts like parenthesis

• A dash can be used like a colon

• A dash omits information

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Where should the dash go in the following sentence:

Jessie’s aunt arrives at the airport today her letter said she would.

• After today

• After airport

• No dashes needed

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Where should the dash go in the following sentence:

My favorite meals are the ones we cook together.

• After Meals

• After Cook

• No dashes needed

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Where should the dash go in the following sentence:

The first basemen got into the professional league when he was twenty he’s always been extremely talented.

• After Twenty

• After League

• No dashes needed

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Where should the dash go in the following sentence:

Sheila was discovering and this really surprised her that she liked broccoli.

• After that

• After discovering and after her

• No dashes needed

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

"After eighty years of dreaming, the elderly man realized it was time to finally revisit the land of his youth—Ireland." What does this dash do to this passage.

• Nothing

• Emphasize where he came from

• as a pause

• Both b and c

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Where would you place the dash in this passage? "The Office a harmless television program or a dangerously subversive guide to delinquency in the workplace?"

• Nowhere

• After "The Office"

• Before "in the workplace"

• Both b and c can work

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A