Dashes are used to:
1. To set off material for emphasis.
Example: After eighty years of dreaming, the elderly man realized it was time to finally revisit the land of his youth—Ireland.
Example: The fairgrounds—cold and wet in the October rain—were deserted.
2. To indicate sentence introductions or conclusions.
Example: Books, paper, pencils—many students lacked even the simplest tools for learning in nineteenth-century America.
Example: To improve their health, Americans should critically examine the foods that they eat—fast food, fatty fried foods, junk food, and sugary snacks.
3. To mark “bonus phrases.” Phrases that add information or clarify.
Example: Better example with dashes: Even the simplest tasks—washing, dressing, and going to work—were nearly impossible after I broke my leg.
4. To break up dialogue.
Example: “I—I don’t know what you’re talking about,” denied the politician.
Example: Mimi began to explain herself, saying, “I was thinking—” “I don’t care what you were thinking,” Rodolpho interrupted.
Below are sentences that need dashes Place the dashes where they need to be in the sentence. Do NOT retype the sentence just type the word before and after the dash along with the dash.
1. I I I don't know what you mean!
2. We need to paint everything the window frames, the doors, the walls.
3. Next week how I dread it! I have to go to court.
4. You know the guy across the street you are not even hearing me.
5. The doors, the windows, the tile they were all broken by the storm.
6. They waded in the upper river a waste of time!
7. We had many things to handle for the trip buy tickets, get passports, pack, arrange for the animals.
8. We we we shouldn't be in this warehouse.
9. That show what a thriller! was the best I have seen.
10. Have you met my girl my best friend and forever companion?