Exercises: 2 / 4

Identifying correct use of colons
Exercise 2

Purpose: By working through this exercise, you will learn to distinguish between correct and incorrect use of the colon. For each item in the exercise, you will be asked to choose the sentence which is correctly punctuated from a list of alternatives.

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Estimated time: 15 minutes.

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