In Semicolons^x, Commas^x

It looks fine. Options which I myself would exercise are (1) replacing the semicolon with a full colon ( : ) and (2) placing a comma after interviews (this is called for if the 'listed' items are sufficiently long or convoluted).

You really must proofread before you post, VC-- after you type your message, click 'Preview' and check what you wrote. I think you have another typing mistake in your #2 now: shouldn't it read 'what if' rather than 'what is'? Anyway: 1. "Jane , being happy to leave , is...

This is generally fine. There are a few things that need repair: learning it (comma) gang related (hyphen) hips allowing (comma) shirt and (comma) where the focus is (delete all except 'focus') News “A (punctuate or restructure the clause) comment, (no comma...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary : 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." ...

Hello Georg. The following words and phrases need repair: At first -- or omit it entirely have gave in UNIVERSITY2 -- wrong preposition September 2000 -- I think I am a little late in helping you. till - change to 'through' reasons -- needs a comma succeed in serving -- change to...

And I will respond to the punctuation question. Here is the Short Course: VERY SHORT PUNCTUATION GUIDE Very basic points about punctuation marks: A COMMA isolates groups of words in a sentence in order to make the sentence meaning clear. If you don't need one, don't use it. If you need...

Hi Clive Descartes wrote 'Cogito ergo sum' without a comma and without 'et'. OK. But Lacan wrote Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" with semicolon: I think; therefore I am. Would you say he was ungrammatical, or just that Lacan uses different rules for grammar and punctuation? just a...

Why do you accept the period as a punctuation mark but ignore the comma, semicolon and colon?-- they have very important functions too, and this piece is in dire need of a few of them. There is no reason to capitalize 'ever'. There is no reason to separate 'extinguish' and 'forever' into two...

No, 'pursue' is wrong; it should obviously be 'pursuit', but you have dumped that for the rhyme and no other reason. You are sacrificing meaning and poetic impact for cheap rhythm and rhyme-- and you're failing in the rhythm anyway. The poet does not force words into form-- s/he finds the...

#1 is correct. #2 is a comma splice (two finite clauses, no conjunction); it needs a semicolon instead of the comma.