Gordimer uses quotation dashes to punctuate her dialogue in Burger's Daughter instead of traditional quotation marks.
While "Open City" has nominally separate chapters, it has the form and atmosphere of a text written in a single, unbroken paragraph: though people speak and occasionally converse, this speech is not marked by quotation marks, dashes, or paragraph breaks and is formally indistinguishable from the narrator's own language.
They are: periods, brackets, exclamation marks, question marks, colons, semi-colons, commas, dashes, parentheses, quotation marks and slashes.
Like an inverted pyramid, the top lines, bordered by quotation marks, rest on a dash, a name and a designation.
Direct speech is not marked even by dashes, let alone quotation marks; the utterances of a dialogue run together with only commas to separate them, plus the capitals that begin a sentence — a manner perhaps less confusing in Portuguese than in English, where the frequent word "I," following a comma, seems, falsely, to signal a different speaker.
For example, Word can convert two hyphens to a dash, transform typewriter-style "straight" quotation marks to typographer's "curly" quotation marks and turn Web addresses into live hyperlinks.
The comic array of caricatures and quotations in this energetic painting has a dash of pop, like pepperoni added to realism's doughy pizza.
Check for run-on sentences, commas and periods inside quotation marks, as well as sparely-used dashes, colons, and semi-colons.
It's a handy guide to the big 12, including: the full stop, comma, apostrophe, semicolon, exclamation mark, dash, brackets, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, question mark and quotation mark.
The 1748 edition of Clarissa separated speakers with "dashes or new lines", but sometimes placed an opening quotation mark "at the exact point at which a quotation began, with a new 'mark of silence', or closing quotation mark, accompanying it where the quotation ended".
The theme in the feature section is inspired by a quotation from the revered Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow: "Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring".
