When a semicolon<span> is used to join two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then given equal position or rank. Some people write with a word processor; others write with a pen or pencil. </span>Use<span> a </span>semicolon<span> between two independent clauses that are connected by conjunctive adverbs or transitional phrases.</span>
Airboats and all-terrain vehicles sifted through fields that were strewn with mangled debris, muddy, fetid marshlands and rubble left behind by hurricane elaine.
