A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles. Emphasis—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start ...

A jury Friday spared the life of the man accused of beating to death his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter and then dumping her in a trash bin. Instead, the jury sentenced Marc Anthony Colon to spend ...

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way. A full stop ...