whenever i search it up its like “erhm actuchually??! you are supposed to use a semicolon between closely related independent clauses which are not joined by a coordinating conjunction!!🤓☝”
EXCUSE ME? I ONLY KNOW LIKE 5 WORDS IN THAT SENTENCE
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It’s stronger than a comma, but weaker than a period. It’s mostly fallen out of fashion. “Tammy was a good woman; Trevor felt differently.” Now you would write, “Tammy was a good woman, however Trevor felt differently.” Unless you’re on a college campus writing a paper. You are discouraged from using it in a news article.
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