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gend, in the 3d p, sing nuoverned by the verb 'writes,' according to Rule III, which says 'A transitive verb,'

&c”--_Ib_, p 114[465]

”Creation sleeps 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end, And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled; Fate drop the curtain; I can lose no more”--_Hallock's Gram_, p 216

SECTION V--THE DASH

The Dash is mostly used to denote an unexpected or en of faltering, or of the irregular stops of one who hesitates in speaking: as, ”Then, after many pauses, and inarticulate sounds, he said: 'He was very sorry for it, was extremely concerned it should happen so--but--a--it was necessary--a--'

Here lord E------ stopped him short, and bluntly demanded, if his post were destined for an other”--See _Churchill's Gram_, p 170

RULE I--ABRUPT PAUSES

A sudden interruption, break, or transition, should be marked with the dash; as, 1 ”'I must inquire into the affair; and if'--'And _if_!'

interrupted the farmer” 2 ”Whom I--But first 't is fit the billows to restrain”--_Dryd Virg_ 3 ”HERE LIES THE GREAT--Falsebut sordid dust lies here”--_Young_

RULE II--EMPHATIC PAUSES

To reater than the structure or the sentence or the points inserted would seem to require, the dash may be employed; as, 1

”I pause for a reply--None?--Then none have I offended--I have done no more to Caesar, than you should do to Brutus”--SHAKSPEARE: _Enfields Speaker_, p 182

2 ”Tarry a little There is soive thee here--no jot of blood”

--ID: _Burgh's Sp_, p 167

3 ”It thunders;--but it thunders to preserve”--_Young_

4 ”Behold the picture!--Is it like?--Like whom?”--_Cowper_

RULE III--FAULTY DASHES

Dashes needlessly inserted, or substituted for other stops eneral to be treated as errors in punctuation; as, ”Here Greece stands by _itself_ as opposed to the _other_ nations of antiquity--She was none of the _other nations_--She was more polished than they”--_Lennie's Gram_, p 78 ”Here Greece stands by _herself_, as opposed to the _other_ nations of antiquity She was none of the _other nations_: She was more polished than they”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 114 If this colon is sufficient, the capital after it is needless: a period would, perhaps, be better

OBSERVATIONS

OBS 1--The dash does not appear to be always a rhetorical stop, or always intended to lengthen the pause signified by an other n, we may notice, that it is now very often employed between a text and a reference;--ie, between a quotation and the name of the author of the book quoted;--in which case, as W mark_ for the two”--_Day's Punctuation_, p

131 But this usage, being coeneral or so necessary, that a neglect of it may properly be censured as false punctuation

OBS 2--An other peculiar use of the dash, is its application to _side-titles_, to set them off from other words in the same line, as is seen often in this Grammar as well as in other works Day says of this, ”When the _substance_ of a paragraph is given as a side-head, a dash is _necessary_ to _connect_ it with its relative e, as well as of the others here na, ”The dash should be inserted between a title and the subject-matter, and also between the subject-matter, and the authority froraph”--_Wilson's Punctuation_, Ed of 1850, p

139

OBS 3--The dash is often used to signify the o; and, when set between the two extremes of a series of nue 10-15;” i e, ”Page 10, 11, 12, &c

to 15”--”Matt, vi, 9-14”