overload@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 days agoWe all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?message-squaremessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareWe all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?overload@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 days agomessage-square154fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregwilikers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 hours agoThat’s not how you use a semi-colon; you use it when you want to show a logical connection between what would otherwise be two separate sentences.
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoExactly my point. In my brain, that’s exactly how I used it. The two statements were logically related, but were separate statements. The fact that the second statement didn’t have it’s own subject-object-verb is (in my mind) irrelevant.
That’s not how you use a semi-colon; you use it when you want to show a logical connection between what would otherwise be two separate sentences.
Exactly my point. In my brain, that’s exactly how I used it. The two statements were logically related, but were separate statements. The fact that the second statement didn’t have it’s own subject-object-verb is (in my mind) irrelevant.