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Wed, 04 May 05 12:16 AM
The Titanic exhibition toured the following cities San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Memphis, Tennessee; and Orlando, Flordia.
do i....
a- change all semicolons to commas.
b- change all semicolons to colons.
c- no changes are needed.
or
d- add a colon after cities.
Thanks for your help.... 8-l
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asdf,
4 yr 207 days ago
D
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abbie1948
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Thu, 05 May 05 12:26 AM
c no changes needed. the semi-colon is used in lists. Here you have a list of cities and there states: city,state; city,state; etc.
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Hope that helps. Abbie
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asdf,
4 yr 196 days ago
I stand by D (one use of the colon is to introduce a list at the end of a complete sentence).
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paco2004
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Sun, 15 May 05 03:24 AM
I think it would be:
The Titanic exhibition toured the following cities : San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Memphis, Tennessee; and Orlando, Flordia.
paco
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pieanne
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Sun, 15 May 05 03:45 PM
I agree with Paco
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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...
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abbie1948,
4 yr 195 days ago
Absolutely. I missed the colon! ![Embarrassed [:$]](/emoticons/emotion-10.gif)
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