You will often also use and, but, yet, so, or nor to join the sentences.

• I kept the picture, and I later had it framed.
• I had it framed, but I later realized that the picture was crooked.
• I showed my husband, yet he did not seem to be bothered.
• I was still bothered, so I took the picture down.
• My husband didn’t notice, nor did he care.

Use a dash when making a brief interruption within a statement.

• To judge whether a dash is appropriate, try to remove the words between the dashes. ...
• There should be spaces before and after a dash in British English.
• Here are two examples of proper dash usage: An introductory clause is a brief phrase that comes — yes, you guessed it — at the beginning of a sentence. ...

• the comma ,
• the full stop .
• the exclamation mark !
• the question mark ?
• the semi-colon ;
• the colon :
• the apostrophe '
• quotation marks " "
• the hyphen -
• brackets ( ) or [ ]

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