By Semicolons, Plurals

Amy and I left for the mall at 7 to get James a birthday cake. It was his 35th birthday. At the bakery shop, we had a hard time choosing from a wide selection of cakes. When I agreed to pick up a cake, I had thought it was a 20 minute (Is it missing an S?I was told not to use the plural when...

Cherrypie10 wrote:I can’t think of a better site name before so I’ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs. Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs, they're the oldest so they're the one whom I love the most.Is that correct? A semicolon keeps it from being a "run-on"...

Sorry, Cogar-- you failed this one utterly.1-- can acquire and ensure2-- growth of income, spending power and population are 3 quite different things and difficult to conceive as a single concept, so the plural verb is needed: have.3-- Thus alone needs a semicolon before it, but enterprises is...

Generally, you should not use a conjunction after a semicolon. An unrelated comment - "an expensive one" is obviously singular, but both shoes and socks are plural. So the sentence has an error unrelated to the semicolon issue.