When am I supposed to use this symbol ";"?
When am I supposed to use this symbol ";"?
Jose Gray
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Liam Anderson
when separating independent clauses sharing a subject or idea or something
Connor Robinson
Never. Thats a fancy symbol only queers and women use.
Juan Sanchez
when neither a period, nor a comma, is sufficient
Levi Thomas
When you want to make a winky face
John Brooks
An test prep book will say you use it to: 1) separate two independent but related clauses in a single sentence 2) separate items in a list of clauses.
But use it however the fuck you want man; grammar always has gray areas where the writer's discretion can be used. On the other hand; over usage of the semicolon is really annoying; the key to a long sentence is the usage of adverb clauses.
For example a sentence might read better as demonstrated here, wherein the semicolon is not exploited as a substitute for good clausing, which clausing is perfectly readable and even delightfully smart assy, the delight of which consists precisely in its irritatingly incessant phrasing, however overly embellished they may in fact be, if only to make the point, perhaps risking even its overemphasis.
Noah Harris
Feels funny to say but until now I'd always assumed McCarthy was some bespectacled bugman.
Tyler Gomez
This nigga's beard gotta bald spot
Brandon Clark
;or one of them can be a dependent clause.
why would you use two commas when zero would have sufficed?
Joseph Morgan
really makes u think
Kevin Flores
i mostly use punctuation as a means to break up the flow of writing rather than as a way of distinguishing grammatical units like clauses, sub-clauses, and so on.
semi-colons look pretentious on the page to me, but i employ them if i am trying to express a slight variation of the same idea in two sentences that don't have enough musculature to stand on their own.
Luke Bennett
that dude's kind of a dingbat sometimes, but he's smarter than like 95% of the people that post here so he gets a pass from me
Brody Sullivan
Colons separate equals; semi-colons separate approximates.
fpbp
Ethan Bailey
stop posting here or at least take off your tripfag
Cameron Peterson
Instead of using semicolons use em dashes
Liam Carter
because a period, was not appropriate; if he didn't use a comma, he would have had to use a semicolon instead.
Elijah Miller
it's a symbol for a söy-powered gloryhole.
Charles Williams
It doesn't matter, you aren't supposed to be creating an identity on Yea Forums.
Jordan Watson
Cameron Bell
Fucking boomer. I remember you in that orthodox wannabe's fucking thread. Kill yourself.
Christian Harris
you can use it instead of a period when a clause or a sentence is closely related to the one before
Hunter Williams
This is some disgusting punctuatiuon.
Jaxson Carter
Eli Hernandez
I was taught that a semicolon marks a pause more impactful than a comma but less so than a period. Is our educational system retarded?
William Murphy
like this ;)
Brody Richardson
is the inclusion of pic related supposed to imply that Jesse "I love" Cox ought to have used the semi-colon between those clauses?
Angel Evans
calm down, bud.
Parker Wood
kill yourself you retarded nigger loving kike