In which sentence is the dash used correctly? Alisa dove behind a dune—and Suzanne covered her head with a jacket. They were tra
pped—on an island far from the mainland. A giant waterspout erupted from the ocean—Min just stood there and took photos. The day had been warm—however, the rain that lashed their faces was cold.
A giant waterspout erupted from the ocean—Min just stood there and took photos.
Explanation:
Dashes are little horizontal lines introduced in the middle of a line of text, usually to indicate a range or a pause, and to separate one group of words from another.
There are two basic forms of dashes: em and en. Em dashes can take the place of commas, colons or parentheses (like in sentence B, where more information is introduced in the sentence following the dash); en dashes indicate spans of time, ranges of numbers or some connection between words.
