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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
semmicolon
Hi. I have a question.
In this sentence
"Don't be fooled by the calmness of the fish, though; taking care of fish can be hard work, and if you don't properly take care of your aquarium, your fish will have poor health and high levels of stress."
why the semmicolon follows though, not precedes it? Can we use semmicolon not before a conjunction but after it?
In this sentence
"Don't be fooled by the calmness of the fish, though; taking care of fish can be hard work, and if you don't properly take care of your aquarium, your fish will have poor health and high levels of stress."
why the semmicolon follows though, not precedes it? Can we use semmicolon not before a conjunction but after it?
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Anonymous Why does the semicolon follow "though" and not precede it? It is being used to join independent clauses. Anonymous Can we use semicolon not before a conjunction but after it?
- Anonymous Why does the semicolon follow "though" and not precede it?
- It is being used to join independent clauses.
- Anonymous Can we use semicolon not before a conjunction but after it?
- Though is an adverb in that sentence, not a conjunction.
- When it is used as a conjunction in the middle of a sentence, it follows a comma: He keeps trying, though he knows it’s pointless.
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AnonymousWhy does the semicolon follow "though" and not precede it?It is being used to join independent clauses.
AnonymousCan we use semicolon not before a conjunction but after it?Though is an adverb in that sentence, not a conjunction. When it is used as a conjunction in the middle of a sentence, it follows a comm
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