Dashes Or Slashes

Using brackets, hyphens, dashes and slashes

Slashes are also sometimes used to mark ranges in numbers that already include hyphens or dashes . One example is the ISO treatment of dating. Another is the US Air Force 's treatment of aircraft serial numbers, which are normally written to note the fiscal year and aircraft number.

A.3 Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses, and Slashes

A dash is a long line between words, used to set off a phrase for emphasis. You can enclose text between two dashes or just use one dash to set off a phrase from the beginning or the end of the sentence.

This is an en dash - This is an em dash — This is a slash / The dash or hyphen is the shortest, and the em dash is the longest. We commonly use dashes or hyphens and en dashes , but we...

Slashes and Dashes

Knowing the difference between the two types of slashes and the three types of dashes is essential for good writing—you don't want to confuse and/ or frustrate readers!