ClearTips: Stunning sentences

Colon linking an elaboration

Colons also link elaborations, embellishments, definitions.

New platforms are often troubled early on by a nasty chicken-and-egg problem: consumers will not buy them until lots of compatible products are available, and companies will not develop compatible products until they see a market.

Here, the writer defines the nasty chicken-and-egg problem, making certain with a colon that you read what follows as the definition.

But Big Brother is doing his bit: in the struggle against crime, terrorism, deadbeat parents, illegal immigrants and even traffic jams, the government keeps an ever-closer eye on more and more of its citizens.

As a result, American art tells the American story: Americans, like any other people, inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and dreams in the images they make.

He had imparted the city's traditional philosophy toward visitors: show them no mercy.

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