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Expressive Punctuation

Em dashes, semi-colons, and other super-useful-once-you-know-them punctuation tools, explored in a Writelike way. Suitable for Middle Years and up.
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Expressive Punctuation Lessons

Expressive Punctuation: Em dashes
Use em dashes as a piece of expressive punctuation.
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11
Expressive Punctuation: Semicolons
Use semicolons to express relationship between ideas or to separate items in a list.
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15
Expressive Punctuation: Commas
Develop greater sensitivity to how you can use commas for expressive effect.
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17
Expressive Punctuation: Contrasting sentence lengths
Learn to adjust sentence length for expressive effect.
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11

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