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Is "Flora glanced at the clock mounted above the help board: Twelve twenty pm." the correct usage of a colon?










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  • Is your question specifically about the colon? We don't do general proofreading here, so asking for the entire sentence to be proofread would be off-topic.
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  • Is your question specifically about the colon? We don't do general proofreading here, so asking for the entire sentence to be proofread would be off-topic.
    – Laurel
    3 hours ago










  • yes, specifically about the colon.
    – Isabel Toro
    3 hours ago


















  • Is your question specifically about the colon? We don't do general proofreading here, so asking for the entire sentence to be proofread would be off-topic.
    – Laurel
    3 hours ago










  • yes, specifically about the colon.
    – Isabel Toro
    3 hours ago
















Is your question specifically about the colon? We don't do general proofreading here, so asking for the entire sentence to be proofread would be off-topic.
– Laurel
3 hours ago




Is your question specifically about the colon? We don't do general proofreading here, so asking for the entire sentence to be proofread would be off-topic.
– Laurel
3 hours ago












yes, specifically about the colon.
– Isabel Toro
3 hours ago




yes, specifically about the colon.
– Isabel Toro
3 hours ago















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