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1. We sometimes use a semi-colon instead of a full stop or period. This is to separate sentences that are grammatically independent but that have closely connected meaning.
Josef likes coffee; Mary likes tea.
Tara is a good speaker; she speaks very clearly.
You did your best; now let's hope you pass the exam.
Ram wants to go out; Anthony wants to stay home.
Note that in the above examples it is not correct to use a comma instead of the semi-colon.
2. Use a semi-colon as a kind of "super comma". When we have a list of items, we usually separate the items with commas. If the list is complicated, we may prefer to use semi-colons in some cases.
ABC Investments has offices in five locations: Kensington, London; Brighton & Hove; and Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
Rental cars must be returned on time; with a full tank of petrol; in undamaged condition; and at the same location as they were collected from.
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-semi-colon.htm
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Semi-colon (;)
1. We sometimes use a semi-colon instead of a full stop or period. This is to separate sentences that are grammatically independent but that have closely connected meaning.
Josef likes coffee; Mary likes tea.
Tara is a good speaker; she speaks very clearly.
You did your best; now let's hope you pass the exam.
Ram wants to go out; Anthony wants to stay home.
Note that in the above examples it is not correct to use a comma instead of the semi-colon.
2. Use a semi-colon as a kind of "super comma". When we have a list of items, we usually separate the items with commas. If the list is complicated, we may prefer to use semi-colons in some cases.
ABC Investments has offices in five locations: Kensington, London; Brighton & Hove; and Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
Rental cars must be returned on time; with a full tank of petrol; in undamaged condition; and at the same location as they were collected from.
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-semi-colon.htm
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What is synthesis ? Synthesis is the just opposite of clause analysis and means the combination of a number of simple sentence in to one new sentence ? simple, compound or complex. Synthesis is a way that makes complex or compound sentence by...
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- Quotation Marks (double, Single)
Quotation Marks (double, single) We use quotation marks to show (or mark) the beginning and end of a word or phrase that is somehow special or comes from outside the text that we are writing. Quotation marks can be double ("...") or single ('...')...