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minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 hours agoI do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you’d put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 hours ago you could also use a colon Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you’d need to remove the word ‘that’ to make the colon a “correct” choice.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-219 hours agoYeah, true. To both, your correction and your caveat. 😅
I do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you’d put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.
Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you’d need to remove the word ‘that’ to make the colon a “correct” choice.
Yeah, true. To both, your correction and your caveat. 😅