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What do semicolon mean?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A semicolon is used to represent a long pause in the middle of a sentence. The pause is longer than that of a comma but smaller than the pause represented by a colon, hence the 'semi'. It is mostly used between clauses that could be separate sentences but have some logical connection.

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