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Quick grammar lesson: Prepositions and pronouns

This sentence from a TV Squad question-and-answer with the author of a book about "American Idol" made me cringe and stopped me hard:

We all watched and saw that there just was not a great chemistry at all between he and Ryan Seacrest, but do you think it's also fair to say that no one was going to get in the way of the mogul-in-the-making that Seacrest has proven himself to be?

Punctuation particulars: the long dash

A colleague's recent note led me to try to find the rules for using dashes.

We learned it in third grade

A little book from the middle of the 20th century reveals lessons in grammar and life.

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