How do I make “Then comes the interesting part: who gets more sleep?” grammatically correct?
I know I used the colon wrong in this sentence, should there be a semicolon there instead? Also does anyone know how to make the sentence "You could go on for days indifferent, though not oblivious, to the fact that nobody cares." grammatically correct?
If anyone can help that would be amazing!
Update:My English teacher underlined sentences in our essays that were incorrect. He told us to find the problem, state it, and fix the sentence.
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What makes you think the colon is used incorrectly? What makes you think your second sentence is grammatically incorrect?
The colon usage is correct, and the second sentence is grammatically correct.
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The usage of the colon is correct. The only potential problem I can see is the use of a lower case ‘w’ in the first word of the second sentence. Authorities are divided on that. Some say capitalize; others say capitalize only when two or more sentences follow the colon. If you follow “Chicago Manual of Style” (or several other handbooks), what you have is correct. If your teacher is a follower another style manual, he may consider it an error. Otherwise, you have a classic case of proper use of a colon: an independent clause followed by a second independent clause that expands or defines the first with the two separated by a colon.
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For the other sentence, I’m drawing a blank.
You could go on for days indifferent, though not oblivious, to the fact that nobody cares.
Breaking it down to analyze it doesn’t help. First, we can drop out the parenthetical expression and omit the clause that modifies ‘fact’. I don’t think any teacher could possibly find fault with those two. That leaves:
You could go on for days indifferent to the fact.
Drop the adverbial phrase – again, no question of its validity:
You could go on indifferent to the fact.
That’s pretty much the core sentence. All the items omitted have been modifiers and a parenthetical. I’m still at a loss as to what your teacher may think is an error. As a remote chance, he may have misinterpreted your structure and may think ‘indifferent’ should be an adverb form since it follows the verb, but a second look should tell him otherwise. Just possibly, he may consider ‘go on’ to be a bit too informal for the tone of whatever you wrote.
If you do find out what he is calling errors, please email me through Y!A. My curiosity has been aroused.
definite and no. whether this is meant to be accomplished as in a actual action, then the splendid type is "seen it accomplished in the previous". whether this is a technique that must be accomplished at some destiny time. then the type is right.