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Can I place a sentence between em-dashes? If I can, should I put a period, or not?

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You can place a sentence between em dashes—people do it all the time—but you shouldn't put a period after it.

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No spaces before and after em-dashes? – FEQ Oct 16 '11 at 1:23
It depends. See Wikipedia—en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_dash#Em_dash. – zpletan Oct 16 '11 at 1:41

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