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Semicolon

Semicolon

In this lesson you will learn the definition of a semicolon and study the usage of semicolons.

Semicolon Definition

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

Semicolon Examples

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.

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