Question

Read the sentence below and answer the question. Reverend Sykes used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses from grace: Jim Hardy had been absent from church for five Sundays and he wasn’t sick; Constance Jackson had better watch her ways – she was in grave danger of quarreling with her neighbors; she had erected the only spite fence in the history of the quarters. In at least 75 words, explain how the semicolons are used in the excerpt.

Answer 1

Answer:

Semicolons are among the punctuations that are misused and misunderstood most than any other punctuation marks. This is because they have been dropped dramatically in the modern literature. Normally semi colons were used in every ten words but today is not the case, because you will come across a semi colon after about ten pages.

Therefore in the given excert, semicolons are used to indicate a long and complicated list that contain individual points that are beneficial and in a continuous form.