Timeline for Using a "colon" after "is" or "this"
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| Jul 25, 2019 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1154315495576879106 | ||
| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:34 | history | edited | Jason Bassford |
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | Lambie | "The real question is this: Are you a man or a mouse?" | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:34 | history | edited | Jason Bassford |
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:30 | answer | added | Jason Bassford | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 7:47 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | A comma would be completely incorrect in all three cases. In 1, the subordinate clause is “to bring my father back”, which the is subject complement. If you don’t want the colon, there should be nothing there, just like you wouldn’t write “My car is, a Honda”. In 2 and 3, there are no subordinate clauses: both parts of each sentence are main clauses, and separating them by a comma is what’s known as a comma splice. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:45 | answer | added | Sandy Anthony | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:18 | history | edited | Bruce RF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:06 | history | asked | Bruce RF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |