Handout Writing and punctuating using
colons
Using colons to expand ideas
Activity 1: Add a colon and a word, phrase or sentence after it to each of the sentences below,
ensuring that you develop the idea in the first sentence. Do not add new ideas.

a) There are number of benefits to a vegetarian diet.

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Which is the falling action of antigone?

On her zoo blog, bindi describes the experience of walking the red carpet with her mum that evening, and the unmatched joy of what happened soon after. “all the categories came up, but then mine did! they said all these top actresses' names then my name! the guy said 'and the winner is . . ’ . . my heart stopped . . ‘bindi irwin! ’ i could not believe it, i won! i was amazed, in tears, i could hardly talk! i’ll never forget that great trip! ” what does the hyperbole in the excerpt the reader understand about bindi? she had a medical problem. she was extremely frightened. she became very excited. she won an important award.

Read the sentence. thomas jefferson himself worked on a draft of the document. what kind of pronoun is himself?