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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Or so

Example:

It was nice; or so he felt when he looked at the picture.

Can 'or so' be used in this manner after semicolon? Are there other ways?
  

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Hi, Example: It was nice; or so he felt when he looked at the picture. Can 'or so' be used in this manner after semicolon? No.

— Clive

  • Hi, Example: It was nice; or so he felt when he looked at the picture.
  • Can 'or so' be used in this manner after semicolon?
  • No.
  • What follows a semi-colon has to be able to stan by itself as an independent clause.
  • Are there other ways?
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Hi,

Example:

It was nice; or so he felt when he looked at the picture.

Can 'or so' be used in this manner after semicolon? No. What follows a semi-colon has to be able to stan by itself as an independent clause.

Are there other ways?

Just write it with a comma.

ie It was nice, or so he felt when he looked at the picture.

Clive
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