Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:49 am
ah! the colon, the colon! Such useful pointing lies there. Such a need indeed.
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Joke from my 16 year old daughter, (A* for GCSE)Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote:Now you are going places I cannot follow.Richard Ruck wrote: A colon would do the job quite nicely.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
DavebytheSea wrote:................... and maybe some of the capitals are superfluous ......
Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote:Now you are going places I cannot follow.Richard Ruck wrote: A colon would do the job quite nicely.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
Euterpe13 wrote:Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote: Now you are going places I cannot follow.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
cheers
B
I think it should be a colon, but I only got a C for O'Level (modern day equivalent)Euterpe13 wrote:Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote: Now you are going places I cannot follow.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
cheers
B