Well, that depends on whether you characterize "Aalaan" as "sensible." g
It's better than some we see here, at least.
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"Aalaan" wrote in message
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I've changed it. I'll crawl away to my glass of wine and the TV news now
;-(
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I am on the side of anyone who prefers "I" to 'i" for the personal
pronoun
(and sensible grammar in general), but I also have a preference for
people
who use sensible screen names.
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"aalaan" wrote in message
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touché!
But I thought you were on my side.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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For someone who wants to rid the world of 'i', what sort of name is
"aalaan"?
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"aalaan" wrote in message
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No I don't wish to 'eliminate the World from the small 'i' but I
would
like
to do it the other way round! Your error of order is a bit like the
classic
advert 'Piano wanted by lady with bulbous legs'
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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I was forgetting your crusade to eliminate the World from the small
'i'
and
other grammatical menaces of using phone texting shorthand
out-of-context.
g
Terry
"aalaan" wrote in message
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Agreed about the need for a capital if one should exist anyway,
such
as
'I' (that much neglected character) but certainly nor as a matter
of
course after a semicolon.
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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To expand on those correct answers: as with all grammar rules,
this
one
may be broken! The first character following the colon should be
capitalised when a capital is normally demanded. For example,
the
phrase
following may be a quote that starts with a capital, a proper
name
follows or simply 'I'. The rule isn't absolute.
To make matter worse, there are some writing circles that insist
on
capitalising after a colon. But that is only in US English and
not
in
British or International English.
Allen Wyatt who publishes a Word Tips Newsletter, once provided
a
tip
for capitalising after a colon stating that Word only had a
built
in
tool for capitalising after a Stop. He genuinely believes that
it
should
capitalise following a colon too, so he produced a macro tool.
--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
"justme" wrote in message
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I was just trying to figure out a simple grammar question and
could
not
find
a way to ask Word 2003 my question. My question is simply:
When I've combined two sentences with a semi-colon, is it
proper
to
capitalize the first word of the second sentence or not?