From The Guardian: “Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests.” With a quiz.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Whither the semicolon?
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I guess the chap who made the quiz believes in starting sentences with the word "so," as he put(s) a semicolon before that word.
ReplyDeleteI think you might have misread something. The sample sentences with so don’t take semicolons. (Semicolons in those sentences get marked wrong.)
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