I can see that latter case, but when I've written myself into that bind I've usually revised my way out of it.

Herb

From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dick Veit
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:22 AM
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Subject: Re: capitalization after a colon

Scott:

From the Wikipedia entry<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_%28punctuation%29> on colons:
Some modern American style guides, including those published by the Associated Press and the Modern Language Association, prescribe capitalization where the colon is followed by an independent clause (i.e. a complete sentence). However, The Chicago Manual of Style requires capitalization only when the colon introduces two or more complete sentences.
Here's another link<http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm> to a discussion of punctuation following colons.

Dick
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Scott <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Have the rules changed on me?  The following is a sentence from a
native speaker of American English who is on a graduate fellowship
or visiting professorship-I forget which-with a Flemish university.
(I had considered myself an expert in punctuation until now).

"But one does capitalize the initial letter of the first word in a
*sentence* following a colon, as then the colon is functioning as a
terminal mark of punctuation, and hence the capitalization is a useful
signal to the reader that it is being used as such and what follows is
a complete sentence and not a list of clauses."


Scott Catledge

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