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Silak12 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Punctiation help

Hi, everyone.

Could someone help me punctuate this sentence properly?

Every name you hear in your daily lives is a noun: either it's the name of a person or a place, an animal or a thing.

Is colon correct in this sentence?

  

Top answer

The colon is OK. The part after the colon is not right. What are the alternatives that you want to present?

  • The colon is OK.
  • The part after the colon is not right.
  • What are the alternatives that you want to present?
  • Are they: the name of a person the name of a place an animal a thing ?
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The colon is OK.

The part after the colon is not right. What are the alternatives that you want to present? Are they:

the name of a person
the name of a place
an animal
a thing

?

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