Journey Of A Writer

En Dash Punctuation Practice

The Middle Punctuation Between The Hyphen and Em Dash

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Hello, fellow writer!

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This article is all about the en dash.

Admittedly, the en dash can be a confusing punctuation mark. It’s often mistaken for either the hyphen or the em dash. On Medium, they’re all the same (yes, even though you can make a hyphen, it’s still treated like the others).

Luckily, there’s not too many uses for the en dash.

Read below and see what I mean.

Uses of The En Dash

• Indicating an expanse of time (From 1992–1995 was the best years to harvest alien babies from humans).
• To mean ‘to’ in terms of location (I’m taking the Jupiter–Saturn transit).
• For scores and directions (The Flaming Orcas won against the Whispering Tigers 3–1 in the WKC (World Knight Championships))
• Connecting words to form complex adjectives (The evil prince enjoys dungeon-style torture as one does)