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Mpgrewal Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

: and ;

Where to use these punctuation marks ";" and ":"
Can someone exemplify
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there's probably more to it than this - but I use them as follows: : is used to introduce a list or an example of a main point ; is used as a gap in a sentence which needs more than a comma, but not quite a fullstop

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  • there's probably more to it than this - but I use them as follows: : is used to introduce a list or an example of a main point ; is used as a gap in a sentence which needs more than a comma, but not quite a fullstop
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there's probably more to it than this - but I use them as follows:

: is used to introduce a list or an example of a main point

; is used as a gap in a sentence which needs more than a comma, but not quite a fullstop
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thx for putting some light suzi
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