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New Hope Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Puncuation

In the passage below, what punctuation should i put after "make sure that", ; or :?

In order to be responsible citizens, we must make sure that
1. We keep our neighbourhoods clean.'
2. We follow traffic rules
3. We pay taxes on time.
  

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haroon rashid In the passage below, what punctuation should i put after "make sure that" You don't need any, but a semicolon is impossible. However, since the list is neither all-inclusive nor very complex and the context is informal, it would be much better style to make it a normal sentence: In order to be responsible citizens, we must make sure that we keep our neighbourhoods clean, follow the traffic rules, and pay our taxes on time.

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  • haroon rashid In the passage below, what punctuation should i put after "make sure that" You don't need any, but a semicolon is impossible.
  • However, since the list is neither all-inclusive nor very complex and the context is informal, it would be much better style to make it a normal sentence: In order to be responsible citizens, we must make sure that we keep our neighbourhoods clean, follow the traffic rules, and pay our taxes on time.
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haroon rashidIn the passage below, what punctuation should i put after "make sure that"
You don't need any, but a semicolon is impossible. However, since the list is neither all-inclusive nor very complex and the context is informal, it would be much better style to make it a normal sentence:

In order to be responsible citizens, we must make sure
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Since I have to list them down in a book, it it is important that I keep the same style. I want to know what punctuation should i put in if I keep the same style.
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No; I mean, is it your personal notebook or are you publishing a textbook? If the latter, for what level students?
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Then do this:

In order to be responsible citizens, we must make sure to

  • keep our neighbourhoods clean
  • follow the traffic rules
  • pay our taxes on time
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