President John Kelly for Secretary and Fred Morrison
for Treasurer.
=Exercise 193--The Dash(--)=
The dash is used to set off parenthetical expressions that have very
little connection with the rest of the sentence; as,
In New York the Harlem River tunnel was comparatively
a simple one, but the first East River tunnels--the
two subway tubes from the Battery to
Brooklyn--presented all the difficulties known to
subaqueous construction.
These tunnels extend on under the great Pennsylvania
terminal building--another of the same decade's
accomplishments--to East Thirty-fourth Street.
The dash is also used to indicate a sudden change or break in the
thought; as,