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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Connecting two clauses?
Hi. Would you please answer these two questions that pertain to the issue of connecting what looks to be two clauses?
1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? Would a colon be corrrect?
eg,
He has cookies (colon or semicolon?) I don't have them.
2. Do you think what is in parentheses is implicit in the structure and the sentence is correct (in addition to the verb "was" in the underlined part?
The total length was XXX and the (total) width XXX.
1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? Would a colon be corrrect?
eg,
He has cookies (colon or semicolon?) I don't have them.
2. Do you think what is in parentheses is implicit in the structure and the sentence is correct (in addition to the verb "was" in the underlined part?
The total length was XXX and the (total) width XXX.
Top answer
1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? -- No.
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- Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them?
- -- No.
- A semicolon or a full stop.
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1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? Would a colon be correct?-- No. A semicolon or a full stop. (I presume that you are speaking of two clauses with no coordinating conjunction.)
e.g.
He has cookies. I don't have any.
He has cookies; I don't have any.
e.g.
He has cookies. I don't have any.
He has cookies; I don't have any.
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