A colon directs your attention to the words or the sentence after it. It signals that what comes after will explain, describe, illustrate or define what came before. a colon can introduce an independent clause, a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and forms a complete thought. or, it can introduce a word or short phrase. When a colon appears in a complete sentence, it always comes after an independent clause. in which sentence is a colon used correctly?

A
I understand why people love: waterskiing.

B
I don’t like boats: they make me very seasick.

C
Alyshia: she loves her puppy more than she loves her fish.

D
Love is what makes: the world go round.

Although william carlos williams rejected traditional verse forms he still believed that is was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.

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Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt