Timeline for Em-dash vs colon: "Remind me: what's your name again?" or "Remind me—what's your name again?"
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| Feb 14, 2014 at 8:33 | comment | added | Leon Conrad | your name - your name is x - what your name is is x - these are all declarative forms. 'What is your name' is an interrogative form. Your suggestion put an interrogative sentence within an imperative sentence, which needed a punctuation mark to highlight the change in intention. Mine made a declarative clause the object of an imperative sentence, and as such, would not have needed a punctuation mark. Hope this helps. :) | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 8:26 | comment | added | Sandeep D | @Leon I'm confused. Could you break the sentence down into subject, predicate and object and highlight the mistake I made? I know it's too much to ask for but it'll be really helpful. | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 8:11 | comment | added | Leon Conrad | I disagree. Perhaps you mean, 'Remind me what your name is again.'? | |
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| Feb 14, 2014 at 7:41 | history | answered | Sandeep D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |