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© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Let’s begin with a simple sentence: Grandma stays up too late.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Now let’s expand on that a bit: Grandma stays up too late. She’s afraid she’s going to miss something. This is OK. Two independent ideas, separated by a period.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon What if we try to combine the two ideas? Grandma stays up too late, she’s afraid she’s going to miss something. Something’s wrong! We connected two independent clauses with only a comma. The dreaded COMMA SPLICE!

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon We could insert a coordinating conjunction: This is better! Note the comma that accompanies the coordinating conjunction. Grandma is afraid she’ll miss something, so she stays up too late.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon We could also try subordinating one of these ideas: Grandma stays up too late because she’s afraid she’s going to miss something. Notice that the comma disappeared. One idea (the second one) now depends on the other; it has become a dependent clause.dependent clause

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon But let’s try something else.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Let’s try using a semicolon in this sentence. Grandma stays up too late ; she’s afraid she’s going to miss something. Notice there is no conjunction used with this semicolon – either subordinating or coordinating. Just the semicolon, all by itself.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Sometimes semicolons are accompanied by conjunctive adverbs – words such as however, moreover, therefore, nevertheless, consequently, as a result. Grandma is afraid she’s going to miss something ; as a result, she stays up too late.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Notice the pattern: ; as a result, semicolon + conjunctive adverb + comma This is a typical construction with semicolons. I did my homework last night; as a result, I earned an “A”!

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon monster lists There is one other use of the semicolon: to help us sort out monster lists, like this one: The committee included Peter Wursthorn, Professor of Mathematics, from Marlborough, Connecticut, Virginia Villa, Professor of English, from Hartford, Connecticut, Paul Creech, Director of Rad-Tech, from Essex, Connecticut, and Joan Leach, Professor of Nursing, from Farmington, Connecticut.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon The committee included Peter Wursthorn, Professor of Mathematics, from Marlborough, Connecticut, Mary Villa, Professor of English, from Hartford, Connecticut, Paul Creech, Director of Rad-Tech, from Essex, Connecticut, and Joan Leach, Professor of Nursing, from Farmington, Connecticut. 4 DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE LISTED HERE! (with their job and where they are from)

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Be careful where you insert semicolons in this sentence. The committee included Peter Wursthorn, Professor of Mathematics, from Marlborough, Connecticut ; Virginia Villa, Professor of English, from Hartford, Connecticut ; Paul Creech, Director of Rad-Tech, from Essex, Connecticut ; and Joan Leach, Professor of Nursing, from Farmington, Connecticut.

© Capital Community College Our Friend, the Semicolon Now you know everything you’ll ever need to know about using semicolons!

© Capital Community College Practice Semicolons 1.The earth contains many kinds of minerals moreover, some of the same minerals have been found on the moon, on other planets, and in meteorites. 2.Minerals are solid, nonliving materials in the soils rocks are combinations of minerals. 3.The people who studied the rocks from the moon included Frasier Marks, Director of Meteors, from Alabama, Linda Gill, Professor of Meteorology, from Utah, and George Lampkins, Area 51 Manager, from Nevada. ; ; ; ;