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by Anja » Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:55 pm
Excerpts from, The Healing Heart - Minds, Moods, and Machines- will give us an important dimension to the effects of emotional stress on the heart.
Let's break this down.
First of all, there is only one comma, so it's not setting off anything that could be non-essential and the dashes aren't either. The book's title is essential to the meaning of the sentence.
Excerpts from The Healing Heart--Minds, Moods, and Machines will give us an important dimension to the effects of emotional stress on the heart.
The title becomes a non-essential element if you were to write the sentence in this way.
Excerpts from Joe Smith's book, The Healing Heart--Minds, Moods, and Machines, will give us an important dimension to the effects of emotional stress on the heart.
The reasoning is because the sentence does not lose its meaning if the title is removed.
Excerpts from Joe Smith's book will give us an important dimension to the effects of emotional stress on the heart.
Ann Grover Stocking
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