full stops on list items? 1212 Responses

Last post: 4 years, 4 months ago | Thread started: Feb 4, 09, 3:47 a.m.

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• Stugoo

  (in the UK) With bulleted lists do you end each with a full stop or not?

  Feb 4, 09, 3:47 a.m. – Permalink

• honest

  usually it's the final bullet point. Consider the list as a paragraph.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:48 a.m. – Permalink

• moth

  Depends if it's a sentence or not.

  • *high five!– Raniator

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:48 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  if it's more than one sentence in the bullet (ie. separated with a comma or a full-stop) then put a full-stop on the end.

  if they are short bullets you don't really need to.

  that's my rule anyhoo.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:49 a.m. – Permalink

• _me_

  http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textb…

  • so no [.] unless what is in the list is sentence as moth said.– _me_

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:51 a.m. – Permalink

• moth

  Yeah - if you're using punctuation at all (ie a comma) then it would look weird not to.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:52 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  either way, make sure you're consistent. but I agree with no full stop for short items. Only sentences

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 3:56 a.m. – Permalink

• tomkat

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  there you go, copy and paste ahead.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 5:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  As people have already mentioned, it depends on if there is already punctuation in the phrase. If so, then, yes, put a period at the end. Also do it for sentences, which really means anything with more than a couple of words.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 5:45 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  For the sake of being consistent, sometimes I will add a period to the end of the word if every other point has one at the end.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 5:46 a.m. – Permalink

• boobs

  Bullet lists are for people who don't really read, right? They're for people who sit and watch PowerPoints. So it doesn't matter whether there's punctuation or not.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 6:37 a.m. – Permalink

• Corvo2

  http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/p…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 6:44 a.m. – Permalink

• monoboy

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/branding/pd…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 09, 7:05 a.m. – Permalink