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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Is this a right use of a semicolon?

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01i00He wears shoes with socks, on expensive one; 01u00but 02u00I prefer loafers myself.02i02br
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12i 12br 12br 10I think I read somewhere that you can not use a semicolon with "but"? 02i 00"02br 02br 00You can use a semicolon to connect two sentences having a semantically intimate relation. 02i 00"02br 00 (3) "01i 00He wears shoes with socks, 00an00 expensive one.

— Paco2004

  • 12i 12br 12br 10I think I read somewhere that you can not use a semicolon with "but"?
  • 02i 00"02br 02br 00You can use a semicolon to connect two sentences having a semantically intimate relation.
  • 02i 00"02br 00 (3) "01i 00He wears shoes with socks, 00an00 expensive one.
  • 02i 00"02br 02br 00paco 0-
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0 Mr.Paco, as you have implied, I feel that Number one is the best choice because the semicolon there brings the two sentences together and establishes an intimate relationship as the writer originally intended the two sentences to be. 0-
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0Generally, you should not use a conjunction after a semicolon.02br
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00An unrelated comment - "an expensive one" is obviously singular, but both shoes and socks are plural. So the sentence has an error unrelated to the semicolon issue.0-
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0Hi guys,02br
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00I tell students not to over-use them. I suggest no more than one per month. Otherwise, every page they write will be full of semi-colons in every sentence.02br
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00I think you should save your semi-colon for a big and important effect, rather than wa
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0 I guess the questioner picked up this sentence from [url=05000]Grammar Station [/url]. Here they are teaching how to punctuate sentences and phrases, but I agree they are making two serious or stupid mistakes here. The first one is the grammatical error that GG pointed out. The second one is the redundant use of the coordinator "but". A semicolon works either "and" or "but" per se. I ha
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0Not to mention the error in logic. My husband's loafers are quite expensive. 050010id1
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The semicolon is wrong there. You need a comma because you are joining two independant clauses. He wears shoes with socks, but I prefer loafers myself. Or, you could have written: He wears shoes with socks; I prefer loafers myself. The semicolon negates the need for a conjunction.
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Anon, thanks for your contribution, but this post was over a year and a half old. Perhaps you can put your talents to more recent posts where the issue has not yet been resolved.
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Actually, conjunctions after semicolons are very common.

Gregg Reference Manual: Seventh Canadian Edition

Rules:
176 a) When a coordinating conjunction (and, but , o, nor and sometimes for, so, or yet) is omitted between t between two independent clauses, use a semicolon-not a comma-to seperate the clauses. If you, prefer, you can treat the second clause
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Just out of curiosity, what year is your Gregg manual?
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