A colon is used to give ... to Allegations of Wrongdoing.") A semicolon has two general uses: to clarify a series and to indicate two closely related sentences. Series—If one or more elements in a ...

Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period. They aren’t obvious and eager-to-please like the exclamation mark. They’re not ...

That semicolon is a heart-bomb, a rare moment of gumshoe vulnerability. Trade it with a dash, a colon ... to the dot-commers, then perhaps the early 2020s can claim the dot-comma as its symbol ...

The period dates all the way back to the 3rd century B.C., although it began as a dot placed at the ... chimera we know as the semicolon, with its colon head and comma tail. 4.

For a short passage a dot was placed ... and inventing the semicolon. And perhaps most key, the younger Manutius published a book in 1566 explaining the use of the comma, colon and period as ...

Their value only came to be clearly standardized when people — at least some people — realized that commas, periods, colons, and semicolons mark syntactic relationships, which are not entirely ...

Do you know how to use a semicolon correctly? Even if you think you do, are you sure? That odd cross between a colon and a comma may be the most frequently misused and misunderstood punctuation ...

The semicolon originated in Venice in 1494, invented by the printer and publisher Aldus Manutius. It was designed as a hybrid punctuation mark to combine elements of a comma and a colon in order ...

I turned up at university with very little idea of what semicolons ... to convey meaning. Punctuation marks could be combined to create rudimentary expressions, such as a colon and a closing ...