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JamesM
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by JamesM Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:44 pm
Alboin wrote: JamesM wrote: a semicolon means "the following is a description of the former".
Isn't a semicolon more generally used to connect two related sentence fragments? (Therefore not restricting it to a description.)
Quite possibly, but "The following is a description of the former" is a mantra I was taught at school regarding the use of semicolons!
