Semicolon Guide

A semicolon is a powerful mark of punctuation indicating a pause between two main clauses. It has three uses: 

1) to connect two related sentences

   - Windsor High is having a canned food drive; every year Luminescent core has collected the largest amount of cans. 

2) used with a transition - usually a conjunctive adverb - to connect two similar sentences

   - One year a different core won the canned food drive when Tucker was not there; but when she returned Luminescent won again.

3) used to avoid confusion when writing a complicated list of items

   - The cans will benefit people in the Philippines, Southeast Asia; South Africa, Africa; and other third world countries.

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