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Originally Posted by HarryT
T I went for a walk this morning; the sun was shining.
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A period works there just fine. I know of no such case where I would use a semi-colon instead of a period. A period over a comma? Sure.
But then again, my editors change my punctuation all the time. So what do I know?
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2. When you have a list, and the items in the list themselves contain commas, a semi-colon is generally used to separate the items.
It really is a very useful punctuation mark .
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This use case makes sense.