The song covers colons, semicolons and dashes and is great as a refresher for students. A Bitesize Primary guide to hyphens and dashes with an animation and activity might help your students ...

Semi-colons - symbolised as ; - do not have as many ... personally I find it very therapeutic. Dashes or brackets: - or ( ) ? Dashes and brackets perform similar functions. They are useful for ...

(He wrote "Crisis Management by Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing.") A semicolon has two general uses: to clarify a series and to indicate two closely related sentences.

A dash is expressed as an "em dash" ( — ) in printing, is expressed in plain text as two hyphens ( -- ) and is used in place of a comma, colon or semicolon for greater emphasis. It denotes a major ...