Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Dash: Fannie, Sonya, Esther

Put your examples here. Each student makes one comment before next Wednesday's class.

Posted by Brad at 3/05/2009 01:53:00 PM

4 comments:

hyunni's place said...

-Example of using colon:

"Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument--that, friends, is real wisdom."
(Saul Bellow, "My Paris," 1983)

In this example, the colon is used to enclose his thought. Here, he uses the colon because he wants to connect the previous sentence and his thought. Also, he wants to emphsize "the real wisdom" by using the colon.

Here is my sentence using the colon:

"Giving up, said I, is like cutting a life support while that person’s families is living with hope--that, my beloved friends, is really means to be give up."

March 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Brad said...

Esther,

I assume you mean "dash" and not "colon" here! Your sample would read better as "Giving up, said I, is like cutting life support while that person's family is living with hope—that, my beloved friends, is what it really means to give up."

March 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM
a crazy couple said...

“We need to change – in dramatic ways. We need a revolution.” (A Shark’s Best Friend – by Susan McClelland, Reader’s Digest, April 2009)

My imitation:
“We need to think – in serious mood. We need a real energy.”


Traditionally Bologna – with its lovely brick architecture and famous wealth – has been called “The Red, The Fat and The Beautiful.” (Eat, Pray, Love – by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, 2006)

My imitation:
Traditionally Esfahan – with its gorgeous azure tiles and famous architecture – has been called “The Half of Universe, The Rich and The Beautiful.”

March 10, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Anonymous said...

Example of a dash as a super-comma or set of super-commas to set off parenthetical elements, especially when those elements contain internal forms of punctuation:
All four of them—Bob, Jeffrey, Jason, and Brett—did well in college

Here is my example,
All the boys—Harvey, Noah, Jay, and Matt—did well in swimming.

dash is also used to join compound modifiers made up of elements that are themselves either open compounds (frequently two-word proper nouns) or already hyphenated compounds:
Here is my example,
The Nurses—Care Aides Relations at Evergreen were empowered by the enhancing seminar called—“Creating Respectful Workplace”.

March 11, 2009 at 6:37 AM

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