Type of usage/accuracy.
He took steroids to boost his performance — not that this made any difference; he was always going to loose this race. (Is this accurate with the semi-colon ?)
Are we not using the semi-colon between a dependent clause ?
As for the story, the only thing frightening in it is it feels contemporary by todays standards.
Anything wrong with this sentence. The part in bold sounds awkward: perhaps 'is that' would be better'?
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panda blue 483 Are we not using the semi-colon between a dependent claus e? Between a dependent clause and what? 'between' requires two elements.
- panda blue 483 Are we not using the semi-colon between a dependent claus e?
- Between a dependent clause and what?
- 'between' requires two elements.
- In any case, no.
- The semi-colon is between two independent clauses.
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panda blue 483Are we not using the semi-colon between a dependent clause?
Between a dependent clause and what? 'between' requires two elements.
In any case, no. The semi-colon is between two independent clauses.
panda blue 483As for the story, the only thing frightening in it is
0Using both a dash and a semi-colon makes the sentence very hard for the reader to interpret.and understand.
It would be easy to reword this in a way that makes it simple for the reader to understand. Forgive me for saying that it seems to me the writer couldn't be bothered to do this.
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