Use of semicolon
In the following section:
His presence was always looked forward to on the Sundays when he filled the pulpit, and he was a ready pastor at the weddings and funerals of Milford; he “had the reputation of a good preacher.”
Is the semicolon to be replaced by a period, given that, besides the subject he, everything else including the verb in the second independent clause is enclosed by quotation marks?
Is a comma required after "Sundays"? "when he filled the pulpit" seems to be a nonrestrictive dependent clause.
Kindly clarify.
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jhilly89 Is the semicolon to be replaced by a period, given that, besides the subject he, everything else including the verb in the second independent clause is enclosed by quotation marks? The quotation marks have no effect on the grammar in this sentence. They are there merely to make the comment echo what people say about him.
- jhilly89 Is the semicolon to be replaced by a period, given that, besides the subject he, everything else including the verb in the second independent clause is enclosed by quotation marks?
- The quotation marks have no effect on the grammar in this sentence.
- They are there merely to make the comment echo what people say about him.
- You are reading Hawthorne, and things were a little different back then, but that is a good semicolon for its day, and to my mind at least marginally appropriate even now.
- One of the uses of the semicolon is suggested by its name.
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jhilly89Is the semicolon to be replaced by a period, given that, besides the subject he, everything else including the verb in the second independent clause is enclosed by quotation marks?
The quotation marks have no effect on the grammar in this sentence. They are there merely to make the comment echo what people say about him. You are reading Hawthorne, a
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