Timeline for Usage of commas and colon in sentence containing lists, and additional clauses
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:20 | answer | added | Max | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 0:13 | answer | added | Simon White | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 12:59 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improved formatting, title, tags, fixed typo
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| Jan 24, 2016 at 1:37 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:59 | comment | added | WS2 | I agree with @MarkHubbard that you should replace the semi-colons with commas. Personally I would not use the colon either, but replace it with a full stop and start a new sentence. Or I might just possibly put a semi-colon in that particular place. But most importantly, to British eyes, there are two important spelling mistakes. To us it is aeroplane and manoeuvre. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:53 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | I like "industrially," since you're not being literal. :-) | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | ab2 | did you want industrially or industriously? I changed to the latter; change it back if want. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Yes, that would work. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:49 | history | edited | ab2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:48 | comment | added | Jill | Thanks! That's how I originally wrote it, but I was worried. I wanted to keep that last sentence as part of the first sentence, with the list bits as a sort of parenthesis and wasn't sure how to do that. So it would read: Blooh: whether blah, blah or blah, bleeh. And that would essentially work? | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Just replace the semi-colons with commas. There is nothing in the structure of the phrases that follow the colon to warrant the use of semi-colons. "Toss the gun; keep the colon." (And the correct airline-speak would be, "industrially embarking and disembarking passengers." We fill the plane, not the passengers -- except in First Class, of course.) | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I find the semicolons more off-putting than the colon, but my style would be to replace the colon with a dash. (But I'm US and I don't always toe the party line.) | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:21 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:21 | history | asked | Jill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |