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The Articles of Confederation-America's first attempt at a Constitution-

was an absolute failure.
What is the function of the dashes in this sentence?

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The function of the dashes in this sentence is to seperate the thought, to almost act as parentheses. The dashes help seperate the bit of information which describes or clarifies the previous noun.

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