what are semicolons ( ; ) used for in a sentence?

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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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Use it for when two short sentences are related enough that you could put a comma there, but it wouldn’t work grammatically.

Or it can be used to separate a list that involves commas.

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