No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

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5. Colon vs. Semicolon What goes wrong: You use these interchangeably, creating confusion about what you're trying to accomplish. Mistake: "I have three pets; a dog, a cat, and a rabbit." ...

Following an investigation, detectives determined that a 14-year-old girl had attacked the victim with a knife “in a manner that posed a serious risk of death or substantial bodily harm,” police said.

The semicolon—written as a combination of a colon and a comma—is meant to connect two related ideas that could each stand alone as a sentence. It’s also used in complex lists to separate ...

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A colon introduces something that follows logically: a list, an example, or an explanation. Examples: You need three things: time, patience, and practice. She had one goal: to win the race.