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Elongated hyphens would make this sentence grammatically correct: Jessica and her friend baked cookies chocolate chip and peanut butter for their club’s bake sale.

Which sentence demonstrates the correct use of elongated hyphens?

Jessica and her friend baked cookies – chocolate chip and peanut butter – for their club’s bake sale.
Jessica – and her friend baked cookies chocolate chip and peanut butter for their club’s bake sale.
Jessica and her friend – baked cookies – chocolate chip and peanut butter for their club’s bake sale.
Jessica and her friend baked cookies chocolate chip and peanut butter – for their club’s bake sale.

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Answer:

The sentence which demonstrates the correct use of elongated hyphens is the following one:

Jessica and her friend baked cookies – chocolate chip and peanut butter – for their club’s bake sale.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence above is the correct one because the elongated hyphens are used to separate additional information without which there would still be a full sentence with a full meaning.

Check it out:

Jessica and her friend baked cookies – chocolate chip and peanut butter – for their club’s bake sale. ↑

(additional information)

If we remove the additional information, there is still a sentence with a full meaning:

Jessica and her friend baked cookies for their club’s bake sale.

The additional information in the present case aims at specifying the kind of cookies Jessica and her friend baked.

User Otabek Kholikov
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The sentence that would make the given grammatically correct is: Jessica and her friend baked cookies -- chocolate chip and peanut butter -- for their club's bake sale. Elongated dash or known as Em dash is used in the sentence in replace of commas or parentheses to make the sentence more readable. 
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