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Semicolon Rules: How to Use the Semicolon when Writing in English | Punctuation Essentials | ESL

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Jennifer: Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel

Sparkle English where I teach you different ways that you can

improve your level of English. Today's video is a part of my

English Writing Essentials series. I've linked in the

description below to my playlist on all the different videos I

have so far in this series including how to use colons,

apostrophes, quotation marks, capitalization rules and more.

Today's video is on how to use semicolons. So let's get

started. In this lesson, you will learn how to use semicolons

correctly when writing in English. This right here is a

colon, and this is a semicolon. You can see in the description

below I have linked you to a video on how to use colons. But

today we're going to talk all about how to use semicolons.

Semicolons are kind of like hybrid between periods or full

stops and commas. We use semicolons to join two closely

related independent clauses in more complex lists with

punctuation and between independent clauses that are

linked with conjunctive adverbs. Now I know this sounds very

confusing and very complicated. But don't worry, because in this

video I'm going to break down rule by rule how to use

semicolons. And I promise you that at the end of this video,


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