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Question by  pascaldg (16)

What are tips for using a semi-colon properly?

 
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Answer by  Lemmy (97)

Use one space after each; Use semi-colons to join related sentences or words that are related; You can combine stand alone sentences; or sentence fragments.

 
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Answer by  lize413 (18)

A semi-colon is basically used when you have two sentances that are closely related, but you don't want to join it into one sentance using "and" or "or".

 
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Answer by  ElleBeeDee (88)

You can use a semi-colon between 2 full thoughts that are related. They should also be relatively short and uncomplicated

 
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