Correct usage in these examples
All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Is the semi-colon here ok, and would we view the usage of the semi-colon as shortening and they ?
Would you class the semi-colon's on these two examples as proper usage too or poor construction?
(after/multiple & indefinitely/with) These words, if you don't parse it, looked like they followed on in the sentence when I first read them.
On 24 August 2012, the prisoner was adjudged sane and sentenced to containment—a special form of a prison sentence that can be extended indefinitely; with an approximate period of 21 years and a minimum time of 10 years, the maximum penalty in Russia.
Cleo’s true predicament first emerges in all its brutality in the hospital, after she delivers a stillborn baby girl; multiple attempts to resuscitate the infant fail, and the doctors give the body to Cleo for a few moments before taking it away.
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panda blue 483 All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Is the semi-colon here ok, Yes. panda blue 483 would we view the usage of the semi-colon as shortening and they ?
- panda blue 483 All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
- Is the semi-colon here ok, Yes.
- panda blue 483 would we view the usage of the semi-colon as shortening and they ?
- I'm not sure I would describe it exactly in that way, as a "shortening".
- However, a comma followed by "and" would be another way to write the sentence.
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panda blue 483All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Is the semi-colon here ok,
Yes.
panda blue 483would we view the usage of the semi-colon as shortening and they ?
I'm no
0All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Is the semi-colon here ok, and would we view the usage of the semi-colon as shortening and they ?
I think many learners overestimate how often native speakers use semi-colons to join sentences. Indeed, so
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