DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post - Thick question about punctuation, please be gentle.

**maonnjtip** · 01-01-2012, 05:48 PM

It's used to separate two parts of a sentence, that could form sentences of their own. It can also be use to separate items in a list.

In an usual turn of events, I find myself agreeing with Bungle [surrender][rofl]

I tend to us a semicolon especially in emails when I have a sentence that is too long either by itself, or using a comma - but contains two closely connected points which would not work well as seperate sentences.

01-01-2012, 05:48 PM	#3
maonnjtip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	It's used to separate two parts of a sentence, that could form sentences of their own. It can also be use to separate items in a list. In an usual turn of events, I find myself agreeing with Bungle [surrender][rofl] I tend to us a semicolon especially in emails when I have a sentence that is too long either by itself, or using a comma - but contains two closely connected points which would not work well as seperate sentences.
	Quote