Answer: capitalization with colons and semicolons

[green_grrl]

sosaith asks, "Following a colon or semicolon, is the first letter capitalized like the start of a new sentence?"

For the use of semicolons and colons in general, I will refer you back to skroberts' Grammar 101 post on punctuation. The tricky bit is whether to capitalize or not.

Well, it's not actually all tricky.

Comments

[perdiccas]

Thanks for this!

[green_grrl]

You are welcome!

[skroberts]

Looks good!

[green_grrl]

Thank you!

[unfeathered]

Oooh, interesting. I was seriously not aware that you could capitalise after a colon if it was a list of sentences and I always thought it looked weird without a capital there! Thank you! :-)

[green_grrl]

Fortunately grammar rules usually have some sort of internal logic. (Too bad it's not always!) In this case, yup, go with what makes sense!

[elusive_life_77]

If my highschool and college English courses had been taught as clearly as you explain I would have aced them easily.

[green_grrl]

That's why we're here, ma'am. *tips hat*

:-)

[lmichelle599]

Thanks. :)

[green_grrl]

You're welcome!