Let’s face it: We’ve all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none.
This sentence uses a colon. The colon follows the rule of the second independent clauses summarising/following the first.
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- Nov 2019
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thisibelieve.org thisibelieve.org
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My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job — any job — and the respect with which I treat others.
This quote uses the dash and follows the rule of dashes for emphasis. It clarifies that any job could and should be able to respect others.
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“Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it’s good luck.
This is a quote using a semicolon to combine two independent clauses. It follows the rules of enclosing direct quotes with quotation marks and to join these related claims and ideas.
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- Sep 2019
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theamericanscholar.org theamericanscholar.org
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A child could walk around it, head high, bending only to step through the valves. The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon.
Things: Child, head, valves (x2), doors, saloon. Doing: walk, bending, step, swinging, are. Describing: high, big. Joining: around, to, through, as, in.
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