: Re: Capitalization after use of colon? This is a sentence from a current writing project detailing how people in jail feel about reading. It provides an escape from the reality of what lies before

@Debbie451

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I have seen capital letters after colons if what comes after the colon is a full sentence:

These rules have only one purpose: They are meant to humiliate.

If you remove the subject and verb, the word after the colon stays lowercase:

These rules have only one purpose: to humiliate.

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