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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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The use of colon in this sentence.
"...they could not agree on one burning question: why he ate the sandwich."
is the colon use properly in this sentence?
is the colon use properly in this sentence?
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Yes, that looks OK. Judging from the register of the context, though, I would probably use an m-dash instead of the colon, which is rather formal.
- Yes, that looks OK.
- Judging from the register of the context, though, I would probably use an m-dash instead of the colon, which is rather formal.
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Yes, that looks OK. Judging from the register of the context, though, I would probably use an m-dash instead of the colon, which is rather formal.
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