A waiting gentle-woman who waits upon a person of rank
for example there is a gentle woman in Williams Shakespear's Macbeth
The semicolon is used in the text above, to cause an intermediate effect between the comma and the period. In this case, when he used a semicolon the author was indicating to the reader that it was necessary to pause, in reading, longer than the pause of a comma, but less long than the pause of a point. This is done because the sentence displays a partially complete thought, but it will present more arguments to be finalized.
In a more simplified way, we can say that the use of a semicolon in the text above was made to separate long coordinated sentences with the same syntactic function.
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Because they don’t try harder ?
Sequence is extremely important when it comes to A. chronological order.
Chronological order means that you are writing events in the exact order in which they occurred. Obviously, this is where sequence comes in, because sequence of events refers to the way, or order in which they actually happened. Thus, sequence is important for chronology, and doesn't have much to do with cause and effect, compare and contrast, or examples and explanations.
