Re: Which?
- From: "Skitt" <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:41 -0700
Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, Oleg Lego wrote:Skitt posted:Oleg Lego wrote:Skitt posted:Abrams1117 posted:
I would ask them: Which Scripture teaches this?
This is acceptable.
Is it? I would have said no. Do you have an explanation?
If the second part is not meant to be an *exact* representation of
the question, I believe it is acceptable. I can't explain it
better than that. I could be wrong on this, and I welcome other
opinions. I should have said, "*I think* this is acceptable."
Are the colon and capital "W' acceptable?
They would be to me.
From <http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm>:
There is some disagreement among writing reference manuals about
when you should capitalize an independent clause following a colon.
Most of the manuals advise that when you have more than one
sentence in your explanation or when your sentence(s) is a formal
quotation, a capital is a good idea. The NYPL Writer's Guide urges
consistency within a document; the Chicago Manual of Style says you
may begin an independent clause with a lowercase letter unless it's
one of those two things (a quotation or more than one sentence).
The APA Publication Manual is the most extreme: it advises us to
always capitalize an independent clause following a colon. The
advice given above is consistent with the Gregg Reference Manual.
The capitalisation of "scripture" raises my eyebrows further.
Referring to a book of the the Bible, it is encountered often enough to be unremarkable:
M-W Online:
Main Entry: scrip·ture
Pronunciation: 'skrip(t)-sh&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin scriptura, from Latin, act or product of writing, from scriptus
1 a (1) capitalized : the books of the Bible -- often used in plural (2) often capitalized : a passage from the Bible b : a body of writings considered sacred or authoritative
2 : something written <the primitive man's awe for any scripture -- George Santayana>
--
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