On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:26:10 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote: [...] >> *A major style guide for general American writing and publication: used >> by some as the 'Bible'. > > Thanks for the discussion and corrections. My apologies to Steven for > pushing my apparnetly overly narrow view. There are plenty of valid use > cases for a colon without an independent clause.
No apology necessary, I like a good argument :) http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/sketch.htm One observation that amuses me though... it seems to me that the widespread practice of people writing colons following sentence fragments isn't sufficient to convince you that this is grammatical, but a self- declared authority prescribing it as allowed is. That makes you a grammar prescriptivist :) We're-all-a-little-bit-prescriptivists-when-it-comes-to-grammar-ly y'rs, -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
