You can usually fix them by throwing a conjunction after the comma or just making them two sentences.
semicolonsemicolonsemicolonsemicolon
semicolonsemicolonsemicolon....
Ahem.
Sorry. I just love that punctuation mark.
Wesley: Hey. Hey, Gunn. Is something weird going on? … Charles, you just peed on my shoes. Gunn: I'll be damned. That's weird.
'Life of the Party'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Steph L. - Mar 25, 2004 9:35:14 am PST #1790 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2004 9:38:35 am PST #1791 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Congrats on the book-ma Hec. That's splendid news.
tommyrot - Mar 25, 2004 9:38:45 am PST #1792 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I feel for the poor misunderstood semicolon; no one understands it.
Glamcookie - Mar 25, 2004 9:39:42 am PST #1793 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Eff the semicolon. There, I said it.
tina f. - Mar 25, 2004 9:40:06 am PST #1794 of 10003
semicolonsemicolonsemicolon
semicolonsemicolonsemicolon
I feel your love. But as I told my brother when I was writing his last paper helping him with his last paper - you want a dead giveaway that somebody wrote something for you? Go from being a comma splicer straight to using semicolons.
He wanted a semicolon in there so bad and I said no college professor would really believe that anyone still in college knew how to properly use a semicolon. Well, not him anyway.
Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2004 9:40:12 am PST #1795 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
I feel for the poor misunderstood semicolon; no one understands it.
I've been known to use the semicolon correctly; however, I've stopped using it at work because reviewers edit it out of everything I write.
Skyzy - Mar 25, 2004 9:41:05 am PST #1796 of 10003
I worship the ground the semicolon walks on; I respect all who know how to use it.
Skyzy - Mar 25, 2004 9:42:44 am PST #1797 of 10003
But as I told my brother when I waswriting his last paperhelping him with his last paper
You too?
ETA oops on the double-posting. Sorry!
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2004 9:46:55 am PST #1798 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What Gloomcookie said.
walks away humming "Conjunction Junction"
Sue - Mar 25, 2004 9:51:05 am PST #1799 of 10003
hip deep in pie
semicolonsemicolonsemicolonsemicolon
semicolonsemicolonsemicolon....
I really do not know how to properly use a semicolon. The only times I'm sure are the joining of clauses with however, and for wordy lists when commas won't work.
Did I mention that I never had a class in grammar after grade eight.