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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
What is the function of semi colon in this article?
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Could you please help me with reading?
I am reading one of the Turkish Phd Student's article on the Internet. However, I don't seem to understand at all what she wanted to mean when she used ; in her article. Would you please have a look at the following paragraph that I quoted from her article and tell what exactly ; mean?
2 Experiments
2.1 Participants
A total of 96 monolingual Turkish-speaking children participated in this
study. The children were assigned to one of the three groups on the basis of
their age: Group 1, mean: 5;10, range: 64-72mo; Group 2, mean: 6;6, range:
73-84mo; Group 3, mean: 7;8, range: 85-96mo. Each group included 32 children.
All children came from upper-middle-class families and they were recruited
either from a preschool or a grade school in Istanbul, Turkey and
tested individually in a quiet room outside their classroom.
Taken from http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=pwpl
Could you please help me with reading?
I am reading one of the Turkish Phd Student's article on the Internet. However, I don't seem to understand at all what she wanted to mean when she used ; in her article. Would you please have a look at the following paragraph that I quoted from her article and tell what exactly ; mean?
2 Experiments
2.1 Participants
A total of 96 monolingual Turkish-speaking children participated in this
study. The children were assigned to one of the three groups on the basis of
their age: Group 1, mean: 5;10, range: 64-72mo; Group 2, mean: 6;6, range:
73-84mo; Group 3, mean: 7;8, range: 85-96mo. Each group included 32 children.
All children came from upper-middle-class families and they were recruited
either from a preschool or a grade school in Istanbul, Turkey and
tested individually in a quiet room outside their classroom.
Taken from http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=pwpl
Top answer
Her idea is the rule that semicolons separate list items that have internal commas; however, semicolons cannot be used with interior colons. In addition, I find no way to understand the meaning of the numbers that immediately follow her alternate semicolons ( 10, 6, 8 ).
- Her idea is the rule that semicolons separate list items that have internal commas; however, semicolons cannot be used with interior colons.
- In addition, I find no way to understand the meaning of the numbers that immediately follow her alternate semicolons ( 10, 6, 8 ).
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Her idea is the rule that semicolons separate list items that have internal commas; however, semicolons cannot be used with interior colons. In addition, I find no way to understand the meaning of the numbers that immediately follow her alternate semicolons (10, 6, 8).
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