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Ngngmaiphuong Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

comma vs. semicolon

Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas ___ the remains of some of which can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion.

Should I use comma or semicolon for the ___ above?

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Welcome to the Forums.

Use a comma.
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Can you explain further?

Though using comma in this case seems more appropriate, I've learned that I should use semicolon to separate two clauses. How come?

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ngngmaiphuongOver the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas ___ the remains of some of which can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion.

Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open pla
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It’s amazing that they could even come up with the ideas for their discoveries __ much less go out and prove them.
This is another sentences.
Though I tried to figure out when to use comma or semicolon, I still cannot be sure about those punctuations usage in some cases, such as the one above.
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You can only use a semi-colon where you can use both a comma and a full stop.
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