BUS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Semicolon, Parachuting
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The noun that the verb acts upon, the noun that completes the action put in motion by the verb. A noun that receives the direct object, usually appears between verb and direct object. When you give a full date (w/ month, day and year), the year functions as an interruption and should be set off with a pair of commas. When you give a city and state together, treat the state name as an interruption. An interruption should be separated from remainder of sentence with a pair of commas, parentheses, or dashes. Dashes punctuate interruptions and other phrases and clauses. Hyphe(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)t (cid:272)o(cid:373)pou(cid:374)d words like (cid:862)twe(cid:374)ty-three, sky-diving, self- defe(cid:374)se(cid:863) Use parentheses to set off an interruption when the interrupting text is an aside and not central to the main point of the sentence. Compound modifiers should be hyphenated if they come before the words they modify.