I like your dogs,they are so cute. Hi, mohzayat. This amounts to a "comma splice." It needs either a conjunction or a semicolon. I like your dogs because they are so cute. I like your dogs; they are so cute. Best wishes, - A. Edit.

The original is fine. your father is smart and your mother is smart, therefore you are smart. This is a comma splice. To remove it, a semicolon or the coordinating conjuction so is needed. Thank you, Greek!

The semicolon is used in a series that has been introduced by a colon. Otherwise, it is used in place of a period to join two sentences which are so close in meaning that a period would set them apart.

His eyes were a blazing blue, his teeth a radiant white, and both contrasted dramatically against his bronzed face. It would seem that a semicolon should follow "blue" because the first clause is independent, but it is also the first of

semicolons are commonly usedf in "not only" statements, indicating connection of ideas without unnecessary prepositions or conjunctions. Can you give an example of what you mean by this?

Please help me with this: This is why I got involved with community service; an activity through which I was able to build houses... Leaving everything on the field was indispensable; an ideology we sixteen individuals adopted... (are the

Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

Jingtian, The New York Times style book says: periods and commas, in American usage, always go inside the closing quotation marks, regardless of grammatical logic. Another source gives this example: ...two complete thoughts joined by

1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? Would a colon be correct?-- No. A semicolon or a full stop. (I presume that you are speaking of two clauses with no

Hi. Would you please answer these two questions that pertain to the issue of connecting what looks to be two clauses? 1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them?