Introduce lists, text or tabular material—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start of a complete sentence. (Our future is dependent on three things: ...

Using a colon to introduce a list and semi-colons to separate items in a descriptive list are explained. This short film is from the BBC series, Punctuation Rules. If pupils are working on a piece ...

Avoid excessive use of exclamation marks! Be ambitious – practise using sophisticated punctuation such as semi-colons and colons.

For example; “Oh, that was quite clever of you”. When expanding on a statement, the correct punctuation to use is a colon. For example, ‘‘John has one fault: his ego’’. Semi colons ...