I have seen similar sentences with a comma after "including." I assume that the colon introduces a list of items. I have seen a comma used there as well.

Of course, you would begin with a capital letter.

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Note added at 2003-11-15 19:02:52 (GMT)
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A note on David Moore\'s changed comment:

David Moore initially posted the following question along with his neutral vote: \"You would begin what with a capital letter?\"

My reply was: \"I would begin a sentence with a capital letter. Is that not done anymore?\"

To my reply, Kpy retorted, \"what sentence?\"

Willmatter\'s comment (below) addressed Kpy\'s retort pretty effectively before I got a chance to do so myself.

Then David Moore chose to reply to my reply with another question, which I will be happy to answer (below), but first I must address the method he used in posting his new question. He did so by deleting his first question and replacing it with the new question, effectively obliterating the sequence of questions and answers. David\'s new question makes sense only if put in the right sequence -- after my reply to the first question, not before. And my reply to his first question makes no sense after that question has been deleted.

David used the new feature that allows PorZers to edit their comments. I believe that this new feature should be used to edit comments, not to replace them with a reply to a reply to a deleted first comment. If one feels compelled to reply to a reply, there should be other ways. Until a satisfactory way is programmed into KudoZ, it is better to use the feature I am using here, which is to add a note to my answer. It is not a perfect tool, but at least it does not delete anything to which a reply has been posted, and it does not alter the dialogue sequence.

Now let me address David\'s question: \"Am I wrong then in thinking a sentence only begins after a full stop, or just old-fashioned?\" The answer is: You are wrong, not old-fashioned:

- If it is the first sentence, then it cannot begin after a full stop or anything else for that matter.

- If it is not the first sentence, then it can begin after a full stop (period), a question mark, or an exclamation point.

In the case we have here, the sentence is the first (and only) sentence quoted by the asker from his text. Therefore, it cannot be preceded by anything.

Of course, the quoted part may have been a fragment. The series of points at the end indicates that the sentence has a continuation, but no similar series of points were inserted to show that the word \"the\" is not the first word in the quoted sentence. Indeed, the asker himself identified the text he quoted as a sentence.