Abracadabra (Original title - I am a Deer)

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This is from a site Erthona once posted a link to.

writingforward.com

Here’s the lowdown on semicolon use:

The semicolon establishes a close connection between two sentences or independent clauses.

A semicolon can replace conjunctions and or but.

Semicolons indicate a stronger separation than a comma but weaker than a period.

A semicolon is often used in lists to separate items when some of the items in listed subsets require commas.

The semicolon is always followed by a lower case letter with proper nouns being the only exception (proper nouns are always capitalized).

Semicolon use can be applied to separate two clauses or sentences that are saying the same thing in different ways.

As with other punctuation marks that denote the end of a clause or sentence, there is no space between the semicolon and the word preceding it; there should be a single space after the semicolon.