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imowrer

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Use a _____ to show that a speaker has been interrupted or has started and stopped while speaking.
 
  a. dash
 b. quotation mark
  c. colon
 d. semicolon

Question 2

Use a dash
 
  a. to create compound adjectives that appear before a noun.
 b. in place of quotation marks.
 c. to set off explanations, examples, and definitions, especially when these elements already include commas.
  d. all of the above



parshano

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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c



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