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Ignositis Posted 16 years ago
Letter Writing

I have a question

Is it always necessary to capitalize the first letter of the first word after a colon?
  

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Hi, Is it always necessary to capitalize the first letter of the first word after a colon? No, you have the wrong idea. Never capitalize this unless it is a proper name or the pronoun 'I'.

— Clive

  • Hi, Is it always necessary to capitalize the first letter of the first word after a colon?
  • No, you have the wrong idea.
  • Never capitalize this unless it is a proper name or the pronoun 'I'.
  • Or unless you are giving direct speech, eg Tom said: "You are my love .
  • .
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Hi,

Is it always necessary to capitalize the first letter of the first word after a colon?

No, you have the wrong idea. Never capitalize this unless it is a proper name or the pronoun 'I'.



Or unless you are giving direct speech, eg Tom said: "You are my love . . . "



In other words, only in such special cases.



Best wishe
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Thank you very much for the clarification, Clive.

Another question:

Thank you very much for the clarification, Clive.> Is it necessary to put a comma before "Clive", or will it do without the comma?

Thanks again for your patience. I'm just refreshing my writing.
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Hi,

You're welcome.

Yes, use the comma.

Clive
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