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Grammar help (for coursework), colons and semi-colons, if you please...

Is the use correct in this example bit:

"Monkeys are great for three reasons: They have hairy tails, they're like mini-people, and there's one in the Whitehouse."

Or should I use semi-colons in place of the commas?

Cheers.

You only need a capital letter after the colon, as this is essentially the equivalent of a full-stop. A semi-colon is much like a comma, and so words after it do not need a capital letter.

Surely, if they are 'mini-sentances', the use of capital letters is required?

Cheers.

Decisions decisions...

:^)

> "Monkeys are great for three reasons: They have hairy tails,
> they're like mini-people, and there's one in the Whitehouse."

Hey, getting popular around here! Actually, WS was not 100% correct. A colon is used to separate a sentence from a list, which is correct as you write it. It is grammatically more correct to use use semi-colons in place of the commas, although this is less frequently used these days.

"Monkeys are great for three reasons: They have hairy tails; they're like mini-people; there's one in the Whitehouse."

Notice the absence of the "and" when you use semi-colons.

Nomino has frequented the PS2 forum for weeks, take a look at some of his masterpieces.....

You seriously didn't know that?

I thought you were just taking the mick...

But I got the impression he knows what he's talking about...

:^)

Cheers WS

Nomino is a stupid person.

Kill it.

Dr Duck wrote:

> "Monkeys are great for three reasons: They have hairy tails,
> they're like mini-people, and there's one in the Whitehouse."


That's right.

Grammar help (for coursework), colons and semi-colons, if you please...

Is the use correct in this example bit:

"Monkeys are great for three reasons: They have hairy tails, they're like mini-people, and there's one in the Whitehouse."

Or should I use semi-colons in place of the commas?

Cheers.