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This punctuation mark (;) has two important uses in written English. (1) It coordinates (separates yet connects evenhandedly) two independent clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction: I ran to the door; no one was there. Notice particularly its use when independent clauses are joined by conjunctive adverbs such as however and furthermore. These are not coordinating conjunctions, and therefore a comma is not enough punctuation; a semicolon does the job: We were there early; nonetheless, they had already left. With a coordinating conjunction such as and or but, a comma would serve: We arrived early, but they had already left. (2) The semicolon also serves to separate clauses or phrases in series constructions when these already contain commas (He had a tall, black horse; a wagon, which someone had given him after the battle; and a threadbare, tattered carpetbag) and elsewhere where there are already other commas. Semi-colons are used to seperate two independant clauses when they appear in the same sentence.
You don't see them often; you really don't need them. Independant clauses can just as easily be seperated into two sentenses; semi-colons are superfulous. its used for when i want to wink..
;) pick northfullen's answer as best answer sorry for the screwy answer and waste of ur time puncuation in a sentance You use it when you want to write textually what somebody else said. Like:
My mother said "Come back here"! How do I shot Fish?
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You have been reported. As for the question, b_vencill420 answered it great with an example.
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