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K.O. Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

semi-colon

Any professional in the healthcare field except for Psychologists; Paramedics, Pre-med/dental, Medical/Dental students can assist and observe the clinics team.

Is 'except for' referring to only 'psychologists' or to all of the medical professionals in the sentence? thanks.
  

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If the punctuation is correct, only the psychologists are excepted.

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  • If the punctuation is correct, only the psychologists are excepted.
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If the punctuation is correct, only the psychologists are excepted.
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Hi, Mister Micawber,

Yes, the punctuation is correct. Thanks.
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K.O.
Any professional in the healthcare field except for Psychologists; Paramedics, Pre-med/dental, Medical/Dental students can assist and observe the clinics team.

This sentence is NOT correctly punctuated in that there is no verb before the semi-colon, which should effectively "end" the sentence. The capitalization is wrong as well. Whe
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Hi Grammar Geek,

Any professional in the healthcare field except for Psychologists; Paramedics, Pre-med/dental, Medical/Dental students can assist and observe the clinics team.

I feel, by that style of punctuation, the writer (a native speaker most probably) was trying to give his or her sentence the sense of '....even Paramedics, Pre-med/dental, Medical/Dental st
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I'm sure that's that he was trying to say, but it's not correctly punctuated. If you want to keep the original word order, try this:

Any professional in the healthcare field except for Psychologists -- Paramedics, Pre-med/dental, Medical/Dental students -- can assist and observe the clinics team.

And the capitalization still needs to be fixed. There's no reason to capital
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