Colons Wikipedia:Manual of Style

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a colon (:) introduces demonstrates, explains, or modifies has come before, or list of items has been introduced. items in such list may separated commas; or, if more complex , perhaps contain commas, items should separated semicolons:



a colon may used introduce direct speech enclosed within quotation marks (see ยง quotation marks above).


in cases colon works best complete grammatical sentence before it. there exceptional cases, such colon introduces items set off in new lines next colon here. examples:



sometimes (more in american in british usage) word following colon capitalized, if word begins new grammatical sentence, , if colon serves introduce more 1 sentence:



the argument stated: have been given 3 tickets. there 4 of here: you, twins, , me. twins inseparable. therefore, or have stay home.

no sentence should contain more 1 colon. there should never hyphen or dash following colon. single space follows colon.







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