Punctuation

• Colons are the most commonly abused piece of punctuation. They have four correct uses.
• 1. Use a colon before a list, but only when the list is an appositive (a restatement of a noun earlier in the sentence). Note that you can’t use a colon right after a verb:
• In the thoroughbred industry, you can make money in several ways: through breeding and selling as weanlings or yearlings; through breeding and selling as two-year-olds; or through buying weanlings or yearlings and selling as two-year-olds.