Clarify the titles of books, lectures and other compositions—Use a colon in titles that express two parallel ideas. The words on either side of the colon should be able to stand on their own. (He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Inter alia, he wrote, “I am an avid reader of your column that educates us on correct usage of English language punctuation, phrases, etc. My concern is the use of full and semi colon before ...