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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