Colon Usage (K)
1) When you have a complete IC, you can end it with a colon to start a list.
Example: Seventeen of the dancing girls in the line knew both of the necessary forms that day: tap and kick boxing.
2) When you have a complete IC, you can magnify the first IC with a second IC.
Example: I loved that dude's tamales: he breathed fire into his mix!
3) You can't use a colon and "such as": it's one or the other.
Wrong: We like to eat many types of pizza, such as: pepperoni, anchovies, and dinosaur.
Right:
We like to eat many types of pizza: pepperoni, anchovies, and
dinosaur.
4) You can't separate a subject complement from the rest of the sentence with a colon.
Wrong: The class that had survived the semester gave: a gift to their teacher.
Right: The class that had survived the semester gave a gift to their teacher.