: Re: Punctuation in a list Let's say I have a document with a list like this: aaaa bbbb cccc dddd Should I put nothing, a semicolon, a full stop or what at the end of each line? This is for

@Debbie451

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This is a stylistic choice. I would never use a comma or semicolon at the end of a list item. I would use a period/full stop only if the item is a full sentence. To wit:

Star Trek is known for breaking new ground on television in several ways:
• Kirk and Uhura's kiss in "Plato's Stepchildren" was the first interracial kiss on broadcast TV.
• Chekov (a Russian) and Uhura (a black woman) as bridge officers
• An alien as the first officer (and in the pilot, a woman as the first officer)
• In later series, black and female captains, and a Klingon bridge officer
• Apocryphally, Lt. Malcolm Reed was intended to be gay, which would have made all the security officers contravene the hulking testosterone-soaked bruiser stereotype (Yar, a wasp-waisted woman; Worf, the oddly subdued Klingon; Odo, the thoughtful shapeshifter; Tuvok, a Vulcan; and Reed, a slender gay man).

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