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"How was I supposed <strong>to</strong>-" she sputtered indignantly.<br />

PUNCTUATION<br />

• Do not put any other <strong>punctuation</strong> immediately adjacent <strong>to</strong> a<br />

dash, with the exception of a question mark or exclamation point<br />

before a closing dash. Even if the text that is broken by dashes<br />

would otherwise take a comma or semicolon, do not include it.<br />

She shrugged her shoulders, and he went back <strong>to</strong> arguing with the brick<br />

wall.<br />

She shrugged her shoulders-it was all so futile-and he went back <strong>to</strong><br />

arguing with the brick wall.<br />

• Text that is enclosed within dashes may contain any <strong>punctuation</strong><br />

mark other than a period. Parentheses should be avoided if possible,<br />

as the construction of an aside within an aside would be awkward.<br />

• Do not employ both a single dash and a pair of dashes in the<br />

same sentence, as it would then be unclear which text is enclosed by<br />

the pair. <strong>The</strong> following sentence, for example, presents a challenge:<br />

He had a determined goal-<strong>to</strong> bring <strong>to</strong>gether all the parties in the<br />

dispute-students, faculty members and administra<strong>to</strong>rs-and get<br />

them talking.<br />

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