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Old 04-14-2014, 06:37 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
And I'll fully admit that I have no idea how to use em dashes.
You use them as breaks in a sentence—a longer break than a comma would be used for (as this example shows). A hyphen should only ever be used to (as its name suggests) hyphenate words.
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