Which of the following best describes the use of punctuation in broadcast writing?
A) Use proper punctuation most of the time, but it's OK to use unnecessary commas, ellipses, and dashes to denote pauses.
B) Broadcasters never use commas but use semicolons frequently instead of periods.
C) Never use dashes or ellipses because they are confusing, and never hyphenate compound modifiers.
D) None of the above
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