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The colon adds information
Krahn 14 [Albert Edward Krahn, doctorate in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 1, 2014, “A New Paradigm for Punctuation”, //zrubin]
The semicolon and colon almost always appear near the end of a sentence because they are usually used to add some information to the basic sentence in a qualified way. The special symbol “permits” them to make a semantic modification to the sentence or partial.
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