I’ve seen correspondences/ writings carry the punctuation mark colon followed immediately with a hyphen when making a list afterward, as per the example below. I tried to look this up but could not find any rule.
Any ideas please?
The followings items were purchased yesterday :-
colon followed immediately with a hyphen
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Re: colon followed immediately with a hyphen
As far as I know this is just a variation of the colon, usually according to personal preference.
By the way, there is normally no space before it, so your example should be:
The followings items were purchased yesterday:-
By the way, there is normally no space before it, so your example should be:
The followings items were purchased yesterday:-
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Re: colon followed immediately with a hyphen
Hi Josef
I traced down and found nothing GRAMMATICALLY to support this use, on the contrary people are advised not to use this thing.
thanks anyway
I traced down and found nothing GRAMMATICALLY to support this use, on the contrary people are advised not to use this thing.
thanks anyway