An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and. For each of the following, choose the sentence with the correct punctuation. Some of the dessert were left by the end of the birthday party. A semicolon is a punctuation mark that looks like a combination of a period and a comma, like this. A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide the blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining. The paperback of the the blue book of grammar and punctuation. Colons and semicolons test this colons and semicolons test checks if you know the difference between the two. Semicolons and colons quiz 2 the blue book of grammar and. They are mostly used in poems, speeches, and academic writing. The blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar, punctuation, and usage. Most newspapers and magazines drop theoxford comma in a simple series, apparently feeling its unnecessary. The man who hated semicolons ten years ago, the author kurt vonnegut stirred things up with four sentences he wrote in his final book, a man without a country. Semicolons 30 to replace a period in two closely linked sentences with such.
Like commas, semicolons indicate an audible pauseslightly longer than a commas, but short of a periods full stop. Punctuation, capitalization, and writing numbers mastery. When the last comma in a series comes before and or or after daughterinlaw in theabove example, it is known as the oxford comma. Some of the dessert was left by the end of the birthday party.
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