To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Is this for real? The photo kind of screams Photoshop. My first thought.
However, assuming it is real, they have better English punctuation skills than most college students. (Note the correct usage of the semicolon!)
Shouldn't that be a colon? A semi-colon would have a word or twowith a comma following it.
It should be a colon; however, I could be wrong!
;)
64 posted on
12/21/2011 6:27:10 AM PST by
Does so
("Drill-Baby-Drill" is NOT a new Government entitlement for "Free Dentistry".)
To: Does so
Hahah...it is kind of interesting to have a grammar discussion on FR that isn’t directed at a poster who irritated someone else!
70 posted on
12/21/2011 11:47:09 AM PST by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: Does so
Interesting. I was taught that the difference between a colon and a semicolon in a sentence was that a colon inferred the thought of “therefore,” or that the second thing necessarily followed the first. A colon is also used to preface a list (which is sort of the same idea). A semicolon, however, is more of a replacement for the word “and.” Many people mistakenly use a comma splice (a comma used instead of the word “and”) when what they really need is a semicolon.
80 posted on
12/21/2011 10:37:11 PM PST by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(Our GOP candidates: Good grief, is this really the best field we can put together???)
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