Capitalization and Punctuation: Colon A colon shows the reader that a list or an explanation follows. Here's what I want you to do: grab my bag, warm up the car, and take me to the station. There's one thing about you that makes me mad: the way you lose track of time when you work in the garden. Application 12

CONTENTS MAIN PAGE 6.1 Observation of Writing 6.2 Capital Letters 6.3 Period 6.4 Question Mark 6.5 Exclamation Point 6.6 Comma 6.7 Colon 6.8 Semicolon 6.9 Quotation Marks 6.10 Parentheses 6.11 Review & Practice 6.12 Fun with Grammar 6.13 Return to Observation of Writing 6.14 Mastery Test