Monday, February 16, 2009

Mistake 3

CNN.com (January 26, 2009)

On the taco trail in L.A.

The one in Highland Park is more centrally located: Near a hipster bowling alley, dive bars, and Occidental College, it's handy for town and gown alike.

The colon needs to be replaced by a semicolon. The second half of the sentence is not a list, quotation, or something to be emphasized. Instead, they are two closely-related sentences that need to be joined by a semicolon.

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