It depends on your sentence,
anyway you always use capitel letter at the begining of a sentence, full stop at the end of the sentence, these two are the main ones.
When writing. At the end of sentences, in sentences. Basically anywhere in your writing piece.
Some of the sentences that I see in Example Sentences are quite laughable.
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The western part of the state is mountainous; the eastern part is flat and arid.
not necessarily in fact never use semicolons or any punctuation at all if you wish & dare just stack your concise blocks of thought & leave spaces between them as warranted & if you are clear about what you mean most people will understand you perfectly
Two forms of punctuation that can be used to create compound sentences are commas (,) and semicolons (;).
To combine sentences, you can use coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so), subordinating conjunctions (because, although, while), or semicolons to connect related ideas. Make sure the combined sentence flows logically and maintains proper grammar and punctuation.
The dispute stretched across many workers unions; however, the pilots union was the most outspoken.
Semicolons [;] are used to connect two closely related independent clauses.
You can join two sentences together by using coordinating conjunctions like "and," "but," "or," "so," "for," "nor," and "yet." You can also use semicolons or commas with conjunctions to connect two independent clauses. Additionally, you can use subordinating conjunctions like "because," "although," "while," or "since" to show the relationship between two clauses.
No it depends how long the sentences are. If they're using lots of conjunctions (and, or, yet, but, so, because, for, nor, etc.), or semicolons (;), then yes it is too long, but other than that, i don't believe so.
When you use commas or semicolons to separate items in a list, the items in the list must be of the same grammatical type or form. This ensures consistency and clarity in the list.
With appropriate exploitation of semicolons, anything is possible. It's not necessarily a good idea, but you can write several pages of text with a single sentence. (However long the longest legitimate paragraph is; semicolons just replace periods, mainly for style reasons.)
Commas are over-used. If writing is clear enough they can probably be eliminated altogether. Think of them as indicating when you would make a natural pause in a sentence. Semicolons are different; they indicate a break in a sentence where you could alternatively put a full stop, or period. As a very general rule, if you can replace a semicolon with a full stop/period and both sections of the sentence can stand alone as sentences, then the semicolon is probably ok. Commas indicate places where a natural pause occurs in the sentence. Semicolons separate predicates that can each stand alone as proper sentences.
Semicolons can be used to separate two closely related independent clauses in a sentence, without a conjunction. For example: "She was determined to succeed; her hard work paid off." Semicolons can also be used to separate items in a list when the items already contain commas.