冒號 [colon]
1. 將於文中條列事項時
e.g. These are our options: we go by train and leave before the end of the show; or we take the car and see it all.
2. 補充說明前文
e.g. The garden had been neglected for a long time: it was overgrown and full of weeds.
3. 引用短文, 段落, 或文句較多時 (引用的文章最好要縮排)
e.g. As Kenneth Morgan writes:
The truth was, perhaps, that Britain in the years from 1914
to 1983 had not changed all that fundamentally.
Others, however, have challenged hthis view...
分號 [semi colon]
分隔兩個無連接詞的主句
e.g. The sun was already low in the sky: it would soon be dark.
She was determined to succeed whatever the cost; she would
achieve her aim, whoever might suffer on the way.
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