Decide where a colon is needed in the following sentence.
on saturday, steven played soccer with four of his friends vanessa, thomas, isabel, and logan.
a: between the words “friends” and “vanessa”
b: between the words “four” and “of”
c: between the words “soccer” and “with”
d: between the words “steven” and “played”

A colon is needed between the word "friends" and "Vanessa". (A)

Explanation:

A colon means "that is to say". In this case, the colon has been used to introduce a series of items. You should not capitalize the first item after the colon unless it is a proper noun (as it happens to be the case in this sentence). The series of items introduced are names of the friends with who Steven played soccer on Saturday.

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i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

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with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?