How (and When) to Use a Semicolon

Amelia Zimmerman
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8 min readMar 17, 2020

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“With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolon; it’s a useful little chap.”

Abraham Lincoln

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Amelia Zimmerman
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