All of the following statements about hyphens, dashes, semicolons, and colons are true except

a. Writers should use dashes sparingly in academic writing

b. A semicolon can be called a soft period.
c. A semicolon follows a salutation in a formal greeting.
d. Hyphens are used to create compound adjectives that appear before the noun.


c

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