Understanding semi-colons

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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Denise And Louise

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• Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor

Music Credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.