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Day 70: Punctuate bulleted series as if they were written out in a sentence.

For lists made from a series in a sentence, use this sample as a guide.

These employees are smart,knowledgeable,friendly, andefficient.

If you were to write this out as a sentence, you would have the following: “These employees are smart, knowledgeable, friendly, and efficient.”

When creating a list, you use the same punctuation.

In the sample list, notice

the commas after each item,where the “and” goes, andthe lack of a colon after “are.”

When the items in the list are complex (i.e., they have their own commas), you can use a semicolon after each list item. Also, you can capitalize each item in the list, but you don’t need to do so because the items would not be capitalized if you were to write this out in sentence format.