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Afternoon guys,

A quick question (I may sound a bit thick here)

I am just putting all the clues in the JE and have hit a 'dead brain' moment

When writing, do you start a word with a capital letter after a semicolon.

There is a clue (can't say too much) which has two words with a semicolon and then the rest of the clue, but the rest of the clue carries on from the first two words. I know that after !/ ./ ? these would need to continue with a capital, but not sure about after this ;

Cheers for answers

Hi Les; no you don't! I hope I'm correct.

Cheers jamoza,

Hi Les40 - just googled it
If a proper sentence follows a colon then the rules of capitalization apply. Example:

Betty couldn't decide between three items: wheat bread, white bread, or German rye. (this is not a complete sentence so it needn't begin with capitalization.)

Betty couldn't decide: Should she buy wheat, white, or German rye? (This serves as a complete sentence, requiring capitalization.)


Les40 not implying you don't know what a proper sentence is - it wouldn't let me copy and paste the first bit :)

This is true but surely a SEMI colon is never followed by a capital?

I'm with ariel. Semicolon never followed by cap.

Ariel you have of course picked up on me being daft and not reading the initial post carefuly enough. Will do better :)

Unless it's a proper noun of course.

In which case it may be changed to lower case by website.

Point to aristophanes.