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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Independent clauses are sections of a sentence that could stand alone. For example:
“I went to the store and Mark went to the gas station.”
That sentence could be two grammatically correct sentences if “and” was removed. “And” is the conjunction here; it joins the two phrases together.
So, by this definition, a semicolon can be used to divide two phrases that could each be their own complete sentence if the sentences are closely related.
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