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What does a semicolon hold together?

What does a semicolon hold together?. The piece of chocolate cake which probably has a million calories in it was delicious. Charles Dickens who was great writer in the late 19 th Century is the author of Little Dorrit . . T he guy that my old roommate married is super boring . . :-).

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What does a semicolon hold together?

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  1. What does a semicolon hold together? The piece of chocolate cake which probably has a million calories in it was delicious. Charles Dickens who was great writer in the late 19th Century is the author of Little Dorrit. The guy that my old roommate married is super boring.

  2. :-) Hyphens –and Dashes —

  3. Use a Hyphen to: *make certain compound words great-grandfather six-year-old son-in-law *create new words using prefixes and suffixes ex-boyfriend self-assured mid-September all-inclusive anti-American all-American pre-Civil War mid-1980s president-elect

  4. Use a Hyphen to: *join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun a one-way street an easy-going dude chocolate-covered peanuts all-powerful ruler well-known author Lea’s fur-lined coat book-smart student street-smart lady *join letters and nouns x-axis T-shirt G-rated

  5. Use a Hyphen to: *between written-out fractions four-tenths seven thirty-seconds (7/32) *in series and with compound numbers (21-99) The socks come in two-, four-, or six-pair packages. Our teacher is sixty-three years old. *to show life span (in parenthesis) Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)was an American rapper and actor.

  6. The dash is sort of like a comma. The difference is in emphasis: use a dash when a comma might not be strong enough

  7. Use a Dash to: *mark a sudden break in thought, add extra information But now that Gale has gone to work in the coalmines—and I have nothing to do all day—I’ve taken over the job.

  8. Use a Dash: *to emphasize a word, a phrase, or a clause Katniss was much more than a victor—she was a rebel. There was only one way out of this—the berries

  9. Use a Dash: *to show when speech is interrupted

  10. Apostrophes The high commas

  11. Use an apostrophe: *with contractions You’re = you are Your = possession They’re = they are Their = possession There = where? It’s = it is Its = possession

  12. Use an apostrophe: *use to form the plurals of letters, numbers, signs ‘+ s A’s and B’s 1’s ad 4’s No if’s, and’s, or but’s +’s and -’s Let’s go over the dos and don’ts of grammar… Also… I’m just hangin’ out here. I graduated high school in ’09.

  13. 1 tattoo 2 tattoos 12 tattoos

  14. 1 sign 2 signs 12 signs

  15. 1 dog 2 dogs 12 dogs

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