On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:
> 
> "If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make two coherent
> and complete sentences, then it doesn't belong."
> 
> Best grammar advice I ever received.
> 

It can also be used to separate elements in a list which themselves contain 
commas yet are not complete sentences.

Andy


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