I was editing a business report yesterday and came across a punctuation problem that I can't seem to find the answer for: Can you put a colon after a period? ABC Co., LTD.: or should it be ABC Co., LTD: This company always includes the

I'm looking for the repaired and correctly punctuated question to be quoted back at me. Any failure in accuracy or clarity in my OP and what I want is simply the curse of 'forum posting' where insufficient time, effort or thought

I'm uncertain as to whether my use of the colon is correct or random puntuation mark scatter. :) Oh, if I've made any other errors I'm happy to be corrected. Thank you. I've signed up for Martin's Money

First of all, I would suggest that in an informal e-mail it makes very little difference, and I wouldn't worry about it. If you want to be absolutely correct, I think that Hi, Diane , using a colon. I agree that two commas that close

Hello, a friend of mine had to write a letter of apology for his course in Business English. He wrote the following letter of apology. The teacher crossed nearly all of his words out. Is the letter grammatically an absolutely nonsense or

It's ok, but I think it could be a little bit better. Perhaps something like: "There are neither men nor women in the world anymore: all that remain are femine men." The colon makes it a bit stronger, and changing

I frequently struggle with a certain type of sentences where I believe a colon would fit nicely but it is not, technically, allowed, as far as I know. Consider these sentences. "I observed the following: his car is red." -- is a colon ok

I frequently struggle with a certain type of sentences where I believe a colon would fit nicely but it is not, technically, allowed, as far as I know. Consider these sentences. "I observed the following: his car is red." -- is a colon ok

the colon No, it's not correctly placed in my opinion. A period is better. Let's see about that number. 200000. CJ Hmm. It worked for me. Maybe it's your editor. I don't know.

Hi, You later asked about this in a new thread, and I answered you there. Clive