Question

"A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken 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?

Answer 1

Answer:

to connect two closely related clauses without a coordinating conjunction

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

To describe the cemetery, I think.

Explanation:

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