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In American English are the following three examples good to use for colon capitalization useage?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)Should the first word after a colon be capitalized?Is the following use of “imperative” good style?How does one deal with one word in parenthesis at the start of a sentence?Should I capitalize Twitter links?punctuation if dash introduces question-sentencesShould I capitalize the middle of a sentence broken up by long examples?What's the capitalization rule for tabulated entries?Is it improper to use a colon and then another colon in the same sentence?Can I use a colon after “for instance”?Colons after a single word (e.g. “Example:”)Are there any guidelines for proper use of “creative” capitalization within in a technical report?
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I know that a variant of this question has been asked before, and recalled what my Creative writing teacher told me about when to use capitalization after a colon, by using the following three example sentences for colon usage.
In a complete sentence, the capital case is optional.
1. This is what I think of cats: They steal your breath.
In the following two examples, the capitalization is not optional to change, therefore the words after the colon must remain lowercase.
This is what I think of cats: nothing.
This is what I think of cats: scary, tiresome, snooty.
In other words, do the above examples properly illustrate proper colon and capitalization usage for American English, regardless of essay style, and usage for non-essay papers?
writing-style capitalization colon
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I know that a variant of this question has been asked before, and recalled what my Creative writing teacher told me about when to use capitalization after a colon, by using the following three example sentences for colon usage.
In a complete sentence, the capital case is optional.
1. This is what I think of cats: They steal your breath.
In the following two examples, the capitalization is not optional to change, therefore the words after the colon must remain lowercase.
This is what I think of cats: nothing.
This is what I think of cats: scary, tiresome, snooty.
In other words, do the above examples properly illustrate proper colon and capitalization usage for American English, regardless of essay style, and usage for non-essay papers?
writing-style capitalization colon
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Not really. Many publishers forbid a capital letter after the colon unless you would use it after a mere comma.
– tchrist♦
1 hour ago
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I know that a variant of this question has been asked before, and recalled what my Creative writing teacher told me about when to use capitalization after a colon, by using the following three example sentences for colon usage.
In a complete sentence, the capital case is optional.
1. This is what I think of cats: They steal your breath.
In the following two examples, the capitalization is not optional to change, therefore the words after the colon must remain lowercase.
This is what I think of cats: nothing.
This is what I think of cats: scary, tiresome, snooty.
In other words, do the above examples properly illustrate proper colon and capitalization usage for American English, regardless of essay style, and usage for non-essay papers?
writing-style capitalization colon
asked 6 hours ago
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I know that a variant of this question has been asked before, and recalled what my Creative writing teacher told me about when to use capitalization after a colon, by using the following three example sentences for colon usage.
In a complete sentence, the capital case is optional.
1. This is what I think of cats: They steal your breath.
In the following two examples, the capitalization is not optional to change, therefore the words after the colon must remain lowercase.
This is what I think of cats: nothing.
This is what I think of cats: scary, tiresome, snooty.
In other words, do the above examples properly illustrate proper colon and capitalization usage for American English, regardless of essay style, and usage for non-essay papers?
writing-style capitalization colon
writing-style capitalization colon
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Not really. Many publishers forbid a capital letter after the colon unless you would use it after a mere comma.
– tchrist♦
1 hour ago
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Not really. Many publishers forbid a capital letter after the colon unless you would use it after a mere comma.
– tchrist♦
1 hour ago
Not really. Many publishers forbid a capital letter after the colon unless you would use it after a mere comma.
– tchrist♦
1 hour ago
Not really. Many publishers forbid a capital letter after the colon unless you would use it after a mere comma.
– tchrist♦
1 hour ago
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