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20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

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In punctuation: Punctuation in English since 1600
The colon (:), which was once used like a full point and was followed by an uppercase letter, now serves mainly to indicate the beginning of a list, summary, or quotation. The semicolon (;) ranks halfway between a comma and a full point. It may be…
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