Choose the sentence that correctly uses a colon. a) i am telling you that: she has got to go! b) last time i went bungee jumping: i did a swan dive from the platform. c) before going sky-diving, be sure to bring the following: goggles, a parachute, and ample courage. d) racing mountains bikes requires excellent physical fitness: but racing also requires a certain amount of recklessness.

The sentence that correctly uses the colon is "Before going sky-diving, be sure to bring the following: goggles, a parachute, and ample courage" (C).

It is important to remember that a colon should only be used after a complete sentence. It is generally used before a list. It can also go after a sentence when the second sentence explains, illustrates, or paraphrases the first sentence.

yeah! it's really me with my homework, you should try it!

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.