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Subject:Re: "Following" - Choice of words From:Reinhard Jaehnig <RJaehnig -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:53:44 -0400
In einer eMail vom 09.10.1996 00:26:34, schreiben Sie:
>The primary features of BlahBlah are the following:
> ... can always be easily recast as:
> The primary features of BlahBlah are:
...
> Please join me in this noble crusade.
Include me out of your crusade. And Strunk and
White, too, since they wouldn't like an incomplete
sentence like "The primary features of BlahBlah are"
neither.
"Use a colon after an independent (!) clause to introduce
a list of particulars ..."
