Film noir codes

genre

HBDF

colon, semi colon

colon

Usually after a complete sentence and...

1) Before a list.
I could only find three of the ingredients: sugar, flour and coconut.

2) Before a summary.
To summarise: we found the camp, set up our tent and then the bears attacked.

3) Before a quote.
As Jane Austen wrote: it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

4) To complete a statement of fact, where the colon is used in place of the following or thus.
There are only three kinds of people: the good, the bad and the ugly.

semi colon

use them to link two complete sentences (using a comma is comma splicing)

I had to go home early; I had a head cold.

or linking two sentences witha conjunctive adverb

I would have worked late; however, I had a terrble head cold.

or in a list where commas are already present

On vacation this year we visited the following: Vienna, Austria; Zurich, Switzerland; and Siena, Italy.

Final exam

Part 1
Write a commentary on the attached passage. (60 min) 50 %


Part 2
Write an essay explaining the following. (60 min) 50 %
While there are still those who seek to deny the dangers or even the existence of Global Climate destabilization, it is incumbent upon any educated person to understand and clearly explain what the realities are and how the so-called mitigating factors count for naught.

Homework 4 Tuesday

Commentary on 'the meeting'