Grammar rules can be tricky, but the difference in using a hyphen vs. dash is more straightforward than you might think. Read on to learn when—and how—to use each correctly in your writing.

In this English article, learn how to use brackets, dashes and commas correctly when showing parenthesis in your writing.

Grammar columnist and expert June Casagrande dives into why we use the em dash and the AI myths associated with it.

McCarthy isn’t an em dash guy himself—more of a “three words and a period” guy. His prose style resembles an Ernest Hemingway who has still killed himself but managed to keep writing.

When to use a dash A dash (specifically, an em dash) has a totally different purpose. It indicates a significant pause or surprising twist in a sentence.

If you’re not sure what all those dashes are or how to use them, this video clearly explains the differences between the hyphen (-), the en dash (–), and the em dash (—).

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses.

En dash En dashes are used to indicate ranges of numbers, date periods, etc. In English, en dashes are used when Japanese would use a wave dash, such as 'pages 128 to 134.' ...

Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in ...