Which one is punctuated correctly?

• Our sun is a star; astronomy is the study of objects in the sky.

• Our sun is a star; the stars we see in the night sky are actually far-away suns.

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Which one is punctuated correctly?

• Our sun is a star; astronomy is the study of objects in the sky.

• Our sun is a star; the stars we see in the night sky are actually far-away suns.

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A lil' confused on this one. Both seem fine. What am I missing?

kendricklamar2014 · Answer

Which one do you think the answer is?

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The first one

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But honestly both of them seem fine actually

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Yes, the first one is Correct

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I already narrowed this down. Why is the first one correct?

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To make the second one correct, you would replace ; with a comma

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But they could be separate sentences. right?

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Yes they could

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Why does the second one need a comma then? I need to know. lol

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because that is how ; work (its hard to explain this :P)

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; are used when you want to provide two different information in one sentence

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Got it. Thanks for trying. :)

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Glad you could Understand :)

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