Quote:
Originally Posted by John Carroll
This is one of the best descriptions I've found:
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I checked out the definition of a semicolon at
GrammerBook.com and thought it was also excellent.
The only rock-solid thing I know is if you hook together two sentences without using a conjunction such as
and or
but, then a semicolon is required. Never use a comma to splice together two sentences.
There are other instances where a semicolon is required, some of which I was unfamiliar with before reading up on this, so thanks for bringing this up.