请教一些格式问题

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1、英文中的破折号，在考试的时候打几横是正确的？
2、句号后面一般是空一格，不过范文里都不一样，据说写PS也是空两个好。不知道有没有正解。
3、英文中不是说没有冒号吗？我为什么经常看到有人用？

草木也知愁UID: 2487572

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2、标点之后都是空一个格
3、有冒号，等你开始做GRE填空的时候你就会盼望着多出现冒号的，不过用法和汉语有所不同，少用，否则弄得自己的作文别别扭扭

forgetlossUID: 2672486

关于冒号的，来源于《the elements of style》,英文基础写作

A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause. The colon has more effect than the comma, less power to separate than the semicolon, and more formality than the dash. It usually follows an independent clause and should not separate a verb from its complement or a preposition from its object. The examples in the lefthand column, below, are wrong; they should be rewritten as in the righthand column.

  Your dedicated whittler requires: a knife, a piece of wood, and a back porch.
  
  Understanding is that penetrating quality of knowledge that grows from: theory, practice, conviction, assertion, error, and humiliation.
上面两个是错误的，下面是改正

  Your dedicated whittler requires three props: a knife, a piece of wood, and a back porch.
   
   Understanding is that penetrating quality of knowledge that grows from theory, practice, conviction, assertion, error, and humiliation.

还有

Join two independent clauses with a colon if the second interprets or amplifies the first.
   But even so, there was a directness and dispatch about animal burial: there was no stopover in the undertaker's foul parlor, no wreath or spray.

A colon may introduce a quotation that supports or contributes to the preceding clause.
   The squalor of the streets reminded her of a line from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

The colon also has certain functions of form: to follow the salutation of a formal letter, to separate hour from minute in a notation of time, and to separate the title of a work from its subtitle or a Bible chapter from a verse.
  Dear Mr. Montague:
  departs at 10:48 P.M.
  Practical Calligraphy: An Introduction to Italic Script
  Nehemiah 11:7

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2、标点之后都是空一个格
3、有冒号，等你开始做GRE填空的时候你就会盼望着多出现冒号的，不过用法和汉语有所不同，少用，否则弄得自己的作文别别扭扭
草木也知愁 发表于 2009-8-6 11:17

谢谢！

cool1580UID: 2646378

谢谢
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