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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Semicolon versus period versus

Hi I have to piece together a couple random lines from Baudelaire and I'm not sure what punctuation to use in this case, as the second half is a list. Here are the lines:

Be always drunken ___ with wine, with poetry, or with virtue.

What would be in the blank? Nothing? A period, comma, semicolon, colon?

thanks
  

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If you have omitted some words after 'drunken' or before 'with wine', you need an ellipsis (three dots). Can you quote the two lines in full for us to be sure?

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  • If you have omitted some words after 'drunken' or before 'with wine', you need an ellipsis (three dots).
  • Can you quote the two lines in full for us to be sure?
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If you have omitted some words after 'drunken' or before 'with wine', you need an ellipsis (three dots).

Can you quote the two lines in full for us to be sure?
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