Semi Colon
I do not understand this sentence. I do not even know if this is true or not.
"A semicolon was not originally used to mark abbreviations."
I am taking a quiz. The specimen of the quiz has this MCQ and the answer is False i.e. this sentence is not correct, the statement is false.
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Hi As a native speaker, I've never found the semicolon used in an abbreviation until quite recently. Historically, the mark is used to show a break in a sentence that is slightly stronger than the break that's marked with a comma However, I just discovered tl;dr which is sometimes used, electronically, as a terse and quite rude reply to a text or email or web post: "too long; didn't read" But that's recent. A semicolon was not originally used to mark abbreviations.
- Hi As a native speaker, I've never found the semicolon used in an abbreviation until quite recently.
- Historically, the mark is used to show a break in a sentence that is slightly stronger than the break that's marked with a comma However, I just discovered tl;dr which is sometimes used, electronically, as a terse and quite rude reply to a text or email or web post: "too long; didn't read" But that's recent.
- A semicolon was not originally used to mark abbreviations.
- I'd say that the statement is true Dave
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As a native speaker, I've never found the semicolon used in an abbreviation until quite recently. Historically, the mark is used to show a break in a sentence that is slightly stronger than the break that's marked with a comma
However, I just discovered tl;dr which is sometimes used, electronically, as a terse and quite rude reply to a text or email or web post: "too lon
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