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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

semicolon help

Hi, I just wondered whether someone could clear this up.what form of punctuation should be used between 'technology' and 'there' in my sentence below.
'15 years ago technology was hugely inferior. When you were a teteenager a bad day at school could certainly not be fixed by technology; there was none!'
Should that semicolon be a hyphen? A comma? Or a colon?

Thanks in advance!
  

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A colon or a dash, I would say. Note that a hyphen and a dash are two different things. A hyphen is wrong.

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  • A colon or a dash, I would say.
  • Note that a hyphen and a dash are two different things.
  • A hyphen is wrong.
  • I would be tempted to put a comma after "teenager".
  • " if that is the stress you intend.
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A colon or a dash, I would say.

Note that a hyphen and a dash are two different things. A hyphen is wrong.

I would be tempted to put a comma after "teenager". You could also consider writing "there was none!" if that is the stress you intend.
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