I'm Cav A and I'm Macia.

Writing can be hard, especially with all the different punctuation rules.

What punctuation confuses you the most?

Let me think.

No one has ever really explained to me the proper use of dashes.

Dashes?

Yeah, I always use them, but I've never been taught about them either.

End Desh em dash and the double hyphen are the three types of dashes, but today let's focus on the first to a dash is a long horizontal line in the middle of a line of text.

It is used to separate groups of words when, as the writer, you want to emphasize a statement or use them in place of a colon or to replace parentheses or a comma.

The em dash does all of these six.

When you want to be less formal and writing and still generate a strong emotion, you can use the em dash.

After all, the neighbors arrived, including Jimmy and Tailor.

The host gave a speech.

The students, all 30 of them, failed.

The test is afraid of one thing.

Spiders.

The end.

Ash is shorter in length and can be used to represent spans of time or ranges in numbers or to show a connection or create compound adjectives.

I read pages 30 through 36 of the new book.

I need 15 to 20 minutes to cook my lunch.

The flight route is London to New York is the Nobel Prize winning scientist, and that's every day grammar.