How to use hyphens and dashes

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Hyphens link two words so the word or phrase makes sense.

Dashes separate information and are a type of parenthesis, like brackets. That means that whatever is inside the dashes tells us even more about something. For example: ’The crocodile – who was fast – got away.'

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