Friday Fundamentals for Solid Writing Habits: Understanding the Elusive Semi-colon
No punctuation mark is more notoriously obscure than the mysterious semi-colon! Normally, we end a sentence with a period and begin the next sentence with a capital letter. But the semi-colon’s two-part symbol is one-half of a colon and a comma combined, thus hinting at its purpose. We can replace that tradition, as long as …