Hi, Ther is no absolute rule about this. I always use a comma. Clive I seem to remember from typing class about 100 years ago that we use the comma in personal letters, the colon in business or more formal letters. Things have

The colon means that it refers to the red, but should read ' This ', not 'that'. What the writer really meant to reference by 'that', I do not know.

My understanding is that the word that in "That is all I know" references the blue texts. The red texts after the colon (:) tells how he thinks about the things being pointed to. Am I right?

Hi, 1.They say, 'come sunshine or high water, the post will get delivered' More accurately, this is the common saying. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their

1.They say, 'come sunshine or high water, the post will get delivered' is the first clause grammatically correct, if so what is it? a phrasal adverb? and what does it describe? if i were to change the 2nd clause to active voice: come

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

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

And yet on this side of the Atlantic, we certainly put a comma after the greeting in an informal letter and a colon after the greeting in a business letter. Right... perhaps there are UK/US differences then. I don't recall ever seeing a

Hi, I was taught to put a comma for both business and personal. Clive

And yet on this side of the Atlantic, we certainly put a comma after the greeting in an informal letter and a colon after the greeting in a business letter. Dear Mary, It was so nice to hear from you. Dear Ms. Smith: Thank you for