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I have three answers:

  1. M is N.
  2. N is O.
  3. O is P.

In the above text, three answers that follow are parts of the same sentence. This is evident from ":" (colon) used in the first part of the sentence. If so, then how does each of the three answers that follow the first part of the sentence take a "." (full stop)?

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In your example, you have an enumerated list, in tabular form, where each entry is a full sentence (independent clause), hence the "."(period). The list is introduced by the ":"(colon) denoting note hereafter. Your list could also be written as:

I have three answers: M is N; N is O; and O is P.
I have three answers: 1) M is N; 2) N is O; and 3) O is P.

where a ";"(semicolon) is used to separate each list entry since they are independent clauses.

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