Allocating and right after a dash
What does that mean?
Examole here:
"It will look less enticing to savvy web surfers-and shoppers."
Thanks in advance!:)
Top answer
A pause is indicated before "and shoppers", perhaps indicating an afterthought, or perhaps with the intention of drawing more attention to "and shoppers". However, it is written incorrectly. A hyphen is used instead of a dash.
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A pause is indicated before "and shoppers", perhaps indicating an afterthought, or perhaps with the intention of drawing more attention to "and shoppers".
However, it is written incorrectly. A hyphen is used instead of a dash. Because dashes may be a nuisance to type (and historically were not even available in the basic ASCII character set), and because many people do not understand the
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