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834. Use a colon (:) to introduce formally a word, a catalogue, a list, questions, statements, or long quotations.
There was but one thing to do: retreat.
I was advised to see these men: C. R. Wright, A. W. Henderson, and B. L. Noojin.
The following will report in uniform tomorrow:
- Butler
- Doolittle
- Thomas
- Williams
The question then arose: What should we do with him?
What troubled us was this: The ammunition was running low.
This is the first sentence in Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher: “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”
835. Use a hyphen (-) in writing fractions, or numbers less than one hundred.