what is the difference between these two sentences:
A) The street emptied; the sheriff walked into town
B)The trees emptied: the sheriff walked into town
HARHAR195What is the difference between these two sentences?
A) The street emptied; the sheriff walked into town.
B) The trees emptied: the sheriff walked into town.
The differences are shown in purple. (Mistakes are shown in red.)
I have no idea what either sentence is supposed to mean exactly.
CJ
Comments
This is not a sentence, and neither are the other two. All sentences begin with a capital letter and end in a suitable punctuation mark. Texting is not standard English, and that is what you want to learn and use. Ignoring that:
The semicolon is uncalled for and puzzling. It calls attention to itself and then does nothing useful. Also, there does not seem to be any connection between the street and the sheriff.
Even worse because the only way I can think of for trees to empty is for all the birds on their branches take flight, but I can't believe that that is what the writer meant. The colon is wrong.