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A Note on Colons and Dashes
You may be wondering when a colon or dash is appropriate to set off an NPA. Most of the time a
comma will do just fine. Sometimes, though, you will wish to call more attention to the information in
apposition-draw the reader's eyes to it-and in those instances, a dash (which is made with two
hyphens ) may do the trick. A colon is usually used when the NPA is a series or list of items (1
brought her favorite fruit: apples, oranges and peaches.")
Exercise 1-Noun Phrase Appositives - Sentence Combining
Combine the following sentences using NPAs.
Mrs. Peterson warned us that we would have only one more day to hand in the assignment.
Mrs. Peterson is my least favorite teacher.
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