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The Art of the Em Dash and the Gradation of Sentence Breaks

Disambiguating periods, commas, semicolons, ellipses, parentheticals, and em dashes

Ben Ulansey
For the Love of Language
5 min readMay 8, 2024

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I heard a useful analogy recently for thinking about the different types of breaks in a sentence. The…

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Ben Ulansey
For the Love of Language

Writer, musician, dog whisperer, video game enthusiast and amateur lucid dreamer. I write memoirs, satires, philosophical treatises and everything in between 🐙