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{"title":"Colons","authors":"Alison Wilcox","doi":"10.4324/9781003190509-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190509-25","url":null,"abstract":"Importantly, the sentence that introduces the list must be a complete, independent sentence. Wrong 1. Please bring: pencils, paper, and erasers. 2. I subscribe to: Vogue, Newsweek, Esquire, and Ebony. 3. The author says: “The colon is often misused.” The error in each of these sentences is that the writer tries to use a colon after a group of words that does not form a complete, independent sentence. Right 1. Please bring pencils, paper, and erasers. OR 1. Please bring the following supplies: pencils, paper, and erasers. 2. I subscribe to Vogue, Newsweek, Esquire, and Ebony. OR 2. I subscribe to four magazines: Vogue, Newsweek, Esquire, and Ebony 3. The author says, “The colon is often misused.” OR 3. The author says important things about grammar: “The colon is often misused.”","PeriodicalId":112390,"journal":{"name":"Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117078748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exclamation marks","authors":"Alison Wilcox","doi":"10.4324/9781003190509-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190509-16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112390,"journal":{"name":"Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6","volume":"370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132836884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}