How do I separate "construction" and "let" in the following sentence? (the context comes from mathematics)
More examples come from the following construction. Let A be ...
Thank you in advance
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Is it important to capitalize "Let"? You could use quotation marks or a block quote.– Stuart FCommented May 9 at 8:35
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@StuartF, those wouldn’t be common in mathematical text.– PaulTanenbaumCommented May 9 at 9:38
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I shall vote to leave this question open because it may be easily recast as: "More examples come from the following proposition". It is reasonable to equate construction (of an argument or line of reasoning) with a proposition. That being the case, all that is needed is the usual mathematical convention of the full stop as shown in the question.– AntonCommented May 9 at 21:34
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Either a period or a colon would be okay. There might be a slight preference for the colon.
As a side note, in mathematical text, names of variables are always set in italics (or, depending on their meaning, in bold). Thus your truncated sentence should read, “Let A be…”
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:- I do not think that a comma would be the standard punctuation. The separation between the two clauses is too substantial. It should be either a colon or a full stop. In many or even most texts of this kind, however, you might find a colon followed by a dash (:-) with the example on a separate line.– TuffyCommented May 9 at 15:26
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Jeez, @Tuffy, I don’t know how many times I’ve looked at that sentence, and yet I never noticed I’d used the wrong word. It’s now fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. Commented May 9 at 15:29