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Vinvika [58]
3 years ago
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"A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and br

oken Coca-Cola bottles. Lighting rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves." In the excerpt above, what best describes the way in which the author is using a semicolon?
English
2 answers:
anzhelika [568]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

to connect two closely related clauses without a coordinating conjunction

Explanation:

GuDViN [60]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

To describe the cemetery, I think.

Explanation:

The beginning shows a cemetry, after the semicolon it describes different aspects of the cemetery.

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