In this blog, I’d like to help you with other uses of the colon.<\/p>\n
Rule 4:<\/strong> It’s often useful to use a colon instead of a semicolon between two sentences when the second sentence explains or illustrates the first sentence and no coordinating conjunction is being used to connect the sentences. If only one sentence follows the colon, it is usually unnecessary to capitalize the first word of the new sentence. If two or more sentences follow the colon, capitalize the first word of each sentence following.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong> Garlic is used in Italian cooking: It greatly enhances the flavor of pasta dishes. It also enhances the flavor of eggplant.<\/em><\/p>\n Rule 5:<\/strong> Use a colon to introduce a long direct quotation. In this situation, many writers leave a blank line above and below the quoted material and single space the long quotation. Quotation marks are not used.<\/p>\n Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n The author of <\/em>Touched, Jane Straus, wrote in the first chapter:<\/em><\/p>\n Georgia went back to her bed and stared at the intricate patterns of burned moth wings in the translucent glass of the overhead light. Her father was in \u201chyper mode\u201d again. Nothing could calm him down.<\/em><\/p>\n He\u2019d been talking nonstop for a week about remodeling projects, following her around the house as she tried to escape his chatter. He was just about to crash, she knew.<\/em><\/p>\n Rule 6:<\/strong> Use the colon to follow the salutation of a business letter even when addressing someone by his or her first name. Never use a semicolon after a salutation. For personal correspondence, use a comma after the salutation.<\/p>\n Example:<\/strong> Dear Ms. Rodriguez:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pop Quiz<\/strong> 2A. The noise from the car collision suggested injuries: One of the drivers was taken to the emergency room with a broken arm. The other walked away from the accident scene with just a few scratches. <\/p>\n Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong> In this blog, I’d like to help you with other uses of the colon. Rule 4: It’s often useful to use a colon instead of a semicolon between two sentences when the second sentence explains or illustrates the first sentence and no coordinating conjunction is being used to connect the sentences. If only one sentence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colons"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI enjoy reading: novels by Kurt Vonnegut are among my favorites.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n1A. Dear Mr. Ang;
\n1B. Dear Mr. Ang:<\/p>\n
\n2B. The noise from the car collision suggested injuries: one of the drivers was taken to the emergency room with a broken arm. The other walked away from the accident scene with just a few scratches.<\/p>\n
\n1B. Dear Mr. Ang:
\n2A. The noise from the car collision suggested injuries: One of the drivers was taken to the emergency room with a broken arm. The other walked away from the accident scene with just a few scratches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"