Should there be a comma — is this comma necessary? —, after an M-dashed, parenthetic phrase? And are those spaces necessary, on both sides of the parenthetic phrase? (ignore the '?', but as a third question, could punctuation in a parenthetic phrase impact the outer sentence?)
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2As far as spaces around em dashes, this has already been asked - it's a matter of choice with most style guides saying no spaces. – Stuart F Jan 21 '22 at 12:05
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5As for commas after dashes, this has been asked before. There is some support for putting them there but opinions are divided: Fowler says keep, Chicago says drop; personally I think it looks ugly with the comma. Does this answer your question? How is punctuation used after dashes? – Stuart F Jan 21 '22 at 12:07
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I'd add that dash + question mark is also ugly and bracketed queries-within-parentheticals are far to be preferred. // Good sleuthing, @Stuart. – Edwin Ashworth Jan 21 '22 at 12:22