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Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

comma, semicolon

1i01font001. Forget him00,00 00he's not worth it. 2. 02font02i01font00I hated high school00;00 00I just want to forget about it.02font02br
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00The above two sentences are quoted from the same dictionary. It seems that they have the same structure. 00Why use a comma in #1 and a semicolon in #2?0-
  

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0I wouldn't use a comma in the first if I were writing carefully; informally, such comma splices are common.0-

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