By Cookies, Colons

Perhaps I misunderstood the discussion. The semi-colon is needed after "cookies", not elsewhere, as Incho says.

" Danielle likes to make sugar cookies ; !! she doesn't, however, eat many of them." Sabs, you are besides the point and barking up the wrong tree. Once more in one-word syllables: In your example above, "however" is set of by a semicolon from the previous clause. The reason why it is...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: However, you can punctuate to your heart's content. Dear PV/LM, I'm not punctuacting 'to my heart's content.' The following example is from Oxford Advanced Dictionary: 'He was feeling bad. He went to work, however, and tried to concentrate.' You could also...