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Grrrrrmmar Warm-up: Semicolon Definition: You can use a semi-colon (;) to join two independent clauses. Joining two independent clauses this way implies that the two clauses are related and/or equal, or perhaps that one restates the other. (OWL at Purdue)
Dai Sijie
Examples:
“The village headman, a man of about fifty, sat cross-legged in the centre of the room…; he was inspecting my violin” (Sijie 3).
“The name was a poetic way of suggesting its terrifying altitude; the poor sparrows and common birds of the plain could never soar to its peak” (Sijie 11).
Write-alike: Write three sentences that each have a semicolon in them. Your topic could be Thanksgiving.