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How do people feel about using a colon after an incomplete sentence? For example, is it wrong to say, "... among these things are: soap, water, and computer chips"? My instinct is to agree with Strunk and White that a colon can only follow a complete sentence, but I see more and more writers (some of them quite good) using colons in the other way.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted colon-oscopy Bryan 03/23/00 05:25 PM Re: colon-oscopy Chele 03/27/00 02:42 PM Post deleted by wsieber wsieber 04/07/00 07:34 AM Re: colon-oscopy jmh 04/07/00 08:05 AM Re: colon-oscopy whalemeat 04/10/00 06:19 AM Re: colon-oscopy jeff 04/12/00 10:54 PM
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