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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

the proper use of prepostions...

The company decided to give her a chance, despite doubts regarding her ability to perform such high-level tasks.

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I wonder if a preposition have a colon before it.

As you know, we usually use prepositions without any colon before it like the following.

"I live in New York."

So, the above sentence(the part = ", depite") seems to be unnatural for me.

Please, reply to my question. Thanks.
  

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There is no reason at all to use a colon here. You could use a colon to further explain what the "chance" was. They company decided to give her a chance: They asked her to organize the shareholder meeting.

— BarbaraPA

  • There is no reason at all to use a colon here.
  • You could use a colon to further explain what the "chance" was.
  • They company decided to give her a chance: They asked her to organize the shareholder meeting.
  • In that case, you are using the colon to say that what comes next explains what came before the colon.
  • Can you say where you go the idea that a colon was required in a sentence like your example?
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There is no reason at all to use a colon here. You could use a colon to further explain what the "chance" was.

They company decided to give her a chance: They asked her to organize the shareholder meeting. In that case, you are using the colon to say that what comes next explains what came before the colon.

Can you say where you go the idea that a colon was required in a sentence
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