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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I've never seen a semi-colon yet that wouldn't be better replaced with a fullstop.
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Semi-colons and full stops are very different beasts.
One circumstance where a semi-colon definitely can't be replaced with a full stop is when you have a list of items, and the items within the list contain commas. It's correct to use a semi-colon as a list separator in that case.
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In his suitcase were three shirts, rather wrinkled; two pairs of socks, which had seen better days; and two pairs of underpants.
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