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Okay writing shmoop er's Here we go Question Three of

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eleven hill That's it just one word underlined and let's

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Go see what context it's in Oh it's in a

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bunker we must be playing golf The delegates finally resolved

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to issue paper money in the form of bills of

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credit Promising redemption with a small are there in coin

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on faith in the revolutionary cause On june twenty to

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seventeen seventy five only a few days after the battle

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of bunker hill congress issued two million dollars in bills

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What's wrong with that bunker hill city We got dash

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in there and a colon and semi colon and akama

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who This is tricky So think about this when an

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m dashes used to set off a parenthetical klaus another

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m dash is needed to end the parent's medical claws

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Right that way There's Well matching punctuation to signal the

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beginning in the end of the aside Got it So

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it's c hill dash and loserville round here Yeah comma

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would be correct only if common had been used to

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start the parent medical klaus Quote on ly a few

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days after the battle of bunker hill unquote a semi

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colon be can be used on lee when the parts

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of the sentence on either side of it could stand

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alone like cheese as complete sentences hear the first part

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of sentence becomes incomplete which isn't fair to those of

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us dying to know what happened on june twenty second

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seventeen seventy five alright get rid of beep and then

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d coghlan's introduce an elaboration on what was just said

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What happened on a date isn't an elaboration of the

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date so much as an explanation of why the date

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was well brought up in the first place So that's

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it correct answer is c hill dash and that's what

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the red coats did when we chased him away Shmoop

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