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... semicolon might have been clearer : The team lost , in spite of all ; and the school was sick . The program will work , of course ; but the cost is high . Beware : however , between commas , cannot substitute for but , as in the ...
... semicolon might have been clearer : The team lost , in spite of all ; and the school was sick . The program will work , of course ; but the cost is high . Beware : however , between commas , cannot substitute for but , as in the ...
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... Semicolon Use the semicolon only where you could also use a period , unless desperate . This dogmatic formula , which I shall loosen up in a moment , has saved many a punctuator from both despair and a reckless fling of semicolons ...
... Semicolon Use the semicolon only where you could also use a period , unless desperate . This dogmatic formula , which I shall loosen up in a moment , has saved many a punctuator from both despair and a reckless fling of semicolons ...
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... semicolon is a stop sign ; the colon , a green light . Notice that the semicolon ( like the colon ) goes outside quotation marks : This was no " stitch in time ” ; it was complete reconstruction . The Colon Use a colon as a green light ...
... semicolon is a stop sign ; the colon , a green light . Notice that the semicolon ( like the colon ) goes outside quotation marks : This was no " stitch in time ” ; it was complete reconstruction . The Colon Use a colon as a green light ...
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Grammar Logic and Rhetoric | 5 |
The Written Voice | 13 |
Basic Structure | 27 |
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