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Bec Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Capitalization after a colon

When is it proper to capitalize after a colon? Only when a complete sentence follows it?

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It may be acceptable to capitalize an independant clause following a colon, but why bother? html ---last paragraph under "Capitalization".

— Ryan smith

  • It may be acceptable to capitalize an independant clause following a colon, but why bother?
  • html ---last paragraph under "Capitalization".
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It may be acceptable to capitalize an independant clause following a colon, but why bother?

See: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/c.html

---last paragraph under "Capitalization".
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I know this is ancient, but you bother because a colon can be difficult to see in many fonts, and the capital letter helps to reaffirm its presence.
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I think if the word following the colon is a proper noun or a proper adjective, we must captialize.

for example. Today I read on sports section: Allan Houston is retired.
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There's no question of that: we're talking about common nouns.
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