Long dashes provide more emphasis than a comma or parentheses and can indicate a pause to slow your reader. Example: Daniel—in all fairness—had no choice but to become Mrs. Doubtfire. Example: She was ...

Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a simple solution.

Note these examples below: As a student living in London ... personally I find it very therapeutic. Dashes or brackets: - or ( ) ? Dashes and brackets perform similar functions.

Read through the information below on how brackets, dashes and commas are used for parenthesis, and to see further examples. They always come in pairs and are placed around extra information that ...