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Wed 13 May, 2015 02:10 pm
Is this colon properly used?
Injury or insult after TBI is mediated through excitatory amino acids (EAA), glutamate and aspartate: causing cell swelling, vacuolization, and neuronal death.
@volcanoswimmer,
Yes. I had the same first reaction a Farmerman.
@volcanoswimmer,
No, I don't.
Personally I see the use here for a dash - not a colon.
Furthermore, please leave my colon out of this.
@Ragman,
I think a colon could be used to precede a list.
@roger,
however, the list came first.
I'm sorry... no..it is 2 types of lists. My choice is to use a dash. Admittedly, it seems a bit beyond my grasp .
@Ragman,
so, you grasp a colon with both arms?
@farmerman,
Im sorry, I just couldnt shut up
@Ragman,
I looked it over again, and I see the list coming after the colon.
Oh, well. . . .
@farmerman,
I had to dash in preparation for my last colonoscopy.
@volcanoswimmer,
volcanoswimmer wrote:
Is this colon properly used?
Injury or insult after TBI is mediated through excitatory amino acids (EAA), glutamate and aspartate: causing cell swelling, vacuolization, and neuronal death.
No, it's not correct. A colon (or hyphen) should precede a dependent clause, such as a list, but it should not come between subject and complement of the main clause. In your sentence, choose a comma.
More here:
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/colons.asp
@volcanoswimmer,
Injury or insult after TBI is mediated through excitatory amino acids (EAA), glutamate and aspartate: causing cell swelling, vacuolization, and neuronal death
I'd remove the comma, using it to replace the colon
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