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There are perfectly legitimate uses of a colon after an incomplete sentence and they are not abominable or even mildly unpleasant.
A colon can be used to separate a dependent word or word group from an independent one - Warning: do not go beyond this point.
A colon can be used before a significant one-sentence quotation or a quotation made up of more than one sentence - Jane Austen said: "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other half"
A colon can be used between speaker identification and speech in a text such as a play or between a title and a subtitle.
There must be other possibilities.
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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