Posted by Bob Hollis on 12/05/99 from 63.74.189.14:
In Reply to: Re: Semi-colons, etc. posted by Tim Johns on December 04, 1999 at 14:41:35:
In my grammar class that would have gotten him a crack on the knuckles. He should have used a colon, since it was followed by a list. I was taught to use a semi-colon when the following phrase could stand alone as a complete sentence.