Dashes are used in writing to indicate explanatory sentences, or to indicate semantic transformation, progress, interruption, extension, etc. The use of dashes and brackets is different: the explanation drawn by dashes is part of the text, and the explanation in brackets is not the text, but a note.

Its main functions are:

1, indicating comments.

(6 1) Go through the Golden Gate, the Guangfeng Hall and the cloakroom, and you will reach the central hall, the hub of the Great Hall building.

2. The turning point and transformation of meaning.

The memory of collecting firewood in the mountains is still happy-although it was a very hard work in childhood.

(54) "What a delicious dish-have you heard the wind?" Zhao Yeqi stood behind seven catties and said.

3. It means progressive.

Nature is reading, reading, memorizing-and reciting it.

4. Used to express the causal relationship between statements, with the result before the dash and the reason after it.

He first pointed out that puppy love is not shameful-it is a very natural and normal phenomenon ... puppy love is not cute-the fruit that bears early is not sweet, and the flowers that bloom early wither early.

5. Extension, interruption or pause of sound.

6. List by project.

7. Used in front of subtitles.

● Prompt dashes and commas have the function of emphasis, the former is stronger than the latter, the comma emphasizes the previous content, and the dash emphasizes the later content.

I ran to the finish line first. That's me-an ordinary middle school teacher.

When the statement is easily misunderstood, use two dashes. A dash can be preceded by a dot to indicate emphasis.

For example, for more than four years, I have been in and out of quality shops and pharmacies almost every day ... To sum up, quotation marks have three functions:

A, indicating the quoted part. In order to distinguish it from the author's own words, the dialogue between characters in the article or the direct quotation of others' words (or articles) are all quoted. For example:

"Remember the revolution!" I remembered what he said before he died. Yes, remember the revolution! (Nocturnal Grass)

Here are two "Remember the Revolution". The first quote is a famous saying of the old Red Army. The second, without quotation marks, is the determination to express "I".

Second, express the specific title and the parts that need to be highlighted. When some words in an article have special meanings, they are often marked with quotation marks. For example:

Our "big dragonfly" has been flying steadily in the sky. (Flying a kite)

The quotation marks in the sentence indicate that it is not a real big dragonfly, but a kite shaped like a dragonfly. Another example is:

Silkworms are going up the mountain. (spring silkworm)

The word "going up the mountain" here is enclosed in quotation marks, which means that it has a specific meaning, especially when the silkworm climbs onto the straw and prepares to spin silk and cocoon.

3. Express irony or negation.

One cannot lower one's noble head. Only those who are afraid of death beg for "freedom" (Two Poems by Revolutionary Martyrs)

The quotation marks here mean that the content expressed is denied, which means that this is not true freedom.