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Today I’m going to talk about my favorite grammatical mark—the dash. It’s my opinion that people don’t use dashes enough. Perhaps this is because dashes are seen as old-fashioned, or perhaps because people don’t quite understand them. On the old-fashioned front, I get it; read English texts from the past and authors throw around dashes …
Ella Minnow Pea is the smartest and sweetest novel I’ve ever read. I’m envious of Mark Dunn, the author, because his central story simple. It’s set on the fictional island of Nollop, home of the fictional Nevin Nollop, the man who invented the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” That sentence …
