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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A participle phrase after a semicolon

For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but -- I know not how or why it was -- its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.
by Edgar Allan Poe http://poestories.com/read/blackcat>

I thought a complete sentence should follow after a semicolon, but in my example, the participle phrase followed.
So I'd like to know why.

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

Poe wrote this story in 1843, I think. Probably this was considered more acceptable in that era. Or perhaps he just wanted to write it that way.

— Clive

  • Poe wrote this story in 1843, I think.
  • Probably this was considered more acceptable in that era.
  • Or perhaps he just wanted to write it that way.
  • Clive
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Poe wrote this story in 1843, I think.
Probably this was considered more acceptable in that era.
Or perhaps he just wanted to write it that way.

Clive
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Thank you, Clive, for your very helpful answer. Emotion: smile
I'd like to know whether modern or contemporary writes used or use that way.
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I would think it is not common today.
Nowadays I'd expect a comma instead of a semi-colon.

Clive
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