Ponsonby in the very next year, 1590, the semicolon may be seen in the first page.
That an earlier use of the semicolon had been made upon the Continent is probable.
The only semicolon he subsequently met with, was in a book printed by Thomas Marshe in 1568, on Chess.
In a heading of two or more lines where a comma or semicolon comes naturally at the end of the first or second line, its omission may change or confuse the sense of the phrase.
That is, if the line is spaced with a 3-space as the average, a semicolon should have a 5-space before it and an en quad after.
If the line is thin-spaced, the spaces before and after the semicolon are reduced also.
The semicolon is used for dividing a compound sentence into two or more parts, not so closely connected as those which are separated by a comma, nor yet so little dependant on each other, as those which are distinguished by a colon.
Though the semicolon is printed closer to the preceding letter than in normal usage, no attempt is made here to render it differently.
The amendments consist of two commas contributed by ex-President Taft and a semicolon from Charles Evans Hughes.
A comma is ordinarily used between the clauses of a compound sentence that are connected by a simple conjunction, but a semicolon may be used between clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs.
A Latin manuscript of the ninth century shows the comma and an inverted semicolon ([Symbol: Comma above Period]) having a value between the semicolon and colon.
A progressive tendency may be seen in the printing of English for centuries toward the elimination of commas, and the substitution of the comma for the semicolon and of the semicolon for the colon.
The semicolon is generally used in long sentences, but may sometimes be properly used in short ones.
The semicolon should always be put outside quotation marks unless it forms a part of the quotation itself.
Both the colon and semicolon are much less used now than formerly.
Attention may be called to Sterne's use of the semicolon and the comma with the dash, a use now obsolete except in rare cases.
The semicolon is the point usually employed to separate parts of a sentence between which there is a very distinct break, but which are too intimately connected to be made separate sentences.
The semicolon is used in enumerations, as in the last example, in order to keep the parts more distinctly separate.
The pause that should be marked by a comma in one case, may require a semicolon in another case; the colon may take the place that the semicolon would generally fill.
Therefore something more than the semicolon is needed.
A pause generally indicated by a semicolon may be indicated by a colon, when the semicolonis used in the sentence for pauses of a different nature.
In the first sentence the semicolon enables us to group the objects enumerated.
A pause generally indicated by a comma may be indicated by a semicolon when commas are used in the sentence for other purposes.
Compare these examples with those given to show how the semicolonreplaces the comma.
Of course, this rule must be qualified by the rules for the stronger points, especially by those for the semicolon and the colon.
The Points are as follows: Comma , Semicolon ; Colon : Period, or Full Point .
The semicolon is sometimes used for a question, and sometimes as an exclamation.
In the fourth line, as you will observe, a semicolon is inserted after the word "since.
It has also been called the Semicolon butterfly which is correct enough so far as this most characteristic feature is concerned; but it leads to confusion in connection with the Latin name.
One is the Violet-tip or Semicolon and the other is the one which has long been called the Comma.
The most characteristic feature is a distinct silver semicolonon the middle of the under surface of each hind wing.
Does the semicolon show that this connection is close?
If one of these noun clauses were not itself divided into clauses by the comma, would the semicolon be needed?
A semicolon is used in compound sentences to separate independent clauses that have no connective between.
The semicolon in such constructions, however, is fast disappearing from newspaper columns.
A semicolonmay be used instead of a comma when a clause or sentence is so broken up by commas as to need some other mark of punctuation to keep the larger phrase- and clause-relations clear.
When in a series of expressions the particulars depend on a commencing or concluding portion of the sentence, they should be separated from each other by a semicolon if laid down as distinct propositions or of a compound nature.
The colon is sometimes used between complete sentences where the period would indicate too long a pause, and the semicolon too short a pause.
A semicolon is placed between two or more parts of a sentence when these, or any of them, are divisible by a comma into smaller portions.
On page 42, the semicolon after "for general propositions" was replaced with a period.
On page 264, a semicolon was replaced with a period.
We know that the semicolon immediately ensuing is the commencement of a word, and, of the six characters succeeding this 'the,' we are cognizant of no less than five.
We know that the semicolon immediately ensuing is the commencement of a word, and, of the six characters succeeding this ’the,’ we are cognizant of no less than five.
We may, therefore, assume that the semicolonrepresents t, that 4 represents h, and that 8 represents e—the last being now well confirmed.
The semicolon after "sorrow" should have come at the end of the line instead of in the middle.
In "The Gold-Bug" t is a semicolon and h is 4, so that; 48 means the.
In a compound sentence, to separate the different clauses, when there is not a sufficient break in the thought to make the semicolon necessary.
When they are not connected by a conjunction, only the semicolon can be used.
When independent clauses in the same sentence are connected by a conjunction, it is proper to use either a semicolon or comma.
Write three sentences in which the semicolon is used to separate similar phrases or subordinate clauses in a series.
The semicolon is therefore used to show a slighter separation between the thoughts than would be indicated by the use of the period.
As we have seen, the period is used to close a declarative sentence, and the semicolon and colon are used to mark off the greater divisions of a sentence.
If the quotation when unbroken is composed of two independent parts separated by a semicolon, a semicolon (not a comma) should follow the author's words when the quotation is broken.
Notice the semicolon which is used to separate the two clauses of the first sentence.
The comma, the colon, or the semicolonmay be used either alone or in connection with the dash.
The semicolonshould be used to precede as, namely, i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semicolon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boundary; caesura; comma; juncture; mark; pause; period; point; punctuation; stop
