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