• Learn the definition of a semicolon
• Study usage of semicolons

• A semicolon looks like this:

        ;

• A semicolon is:

• used to join two sentences more closely than they would be joined if separated by a period

• I am alone; my wife had to leave.

• I traveled to London, England; Tijuana, Mexico; and Reykjavik, Iceland.

• Lisa scored 2,570,845,770 points; Marcia, 2,395,312,860; and John, 1,984,726,640.