Colon or semi-colon 2

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With the sentences show in the table which marker would be appropriate at each numbered point, a colon or a semi-colon.

Name:

  Point in text Punctuation marker
Francis Hayes (1940) divides gestures into three categories that facilitate discussion (1) autistic gestures, technical gestures and folk gestures. 1 colon   semi-colon
The storage of information in memory has two important implications (2) first, there must be a group of individuals who specialise in becoming information carriers (3) second the nature of information is very flexible. 2

3

colon   semi-colon

colon  semi-colon

... for Marx, the relationship between economic power and political power was clear (4) the capitalists were not simply and owning class (5) they were a ruling class too. 4

5

colon   semi-colon

colon   semi-colon

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