About this episode
Denise and Louise demystify (and stand up for) one of the most misunderstood pieces of punctuation – the semi-colon.
Listen To Find Out More About:
- What the semi-colon looks like
- Separating two independent clauses
- Subjects and predicates
- Weighting and parallelism
- Comma splices
- Separating items in a list
- Emojis
- Objections to the semi-colon
Resources related to the show
- National Centre for Writing’s podcast
- Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life, by Cecilia Watson
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‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
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