Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using ...

Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

Ah, the dash — the all-purpose punctuation mark. If you don't know what punctuation mark to use — you can't decide between a few, or you just have no clue — it's the one that seems like you ...

Look at how using a hyphen can completely change a sentence's meaning: The superstar player decided to resign his contract. This means the player is leaving the club. The superstar player decided ...

A hyphen ( - ) is used to link parts of a compound word. This includes most dual heritages (Mexican-American), and all words in a compound modifier except "very" and adverbs that end in "ly." (The ...

Let’s see all these fixes in detail. 1] Remove dashes in Excel by using the Flash Fill method This is the easiest method to remove dashes from data in Excel. Flash Fill identifies the pattern ...

Look at how using a hyphen can completely change a sentence's meaning: The superstar player decided to resign his contract. This means the player is leaving the club. The superstar player decided ...