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OpenStudy (anonymous):

You can go if you want to; but I'm not going. Is the ; used properly in that sentence?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

YES GODDAMMIT

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Oh my god; people are so illiterate these days

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Semicolon separates elements of the sentence which otherwise wouldn't make sense without comma or semicolon

OpenStudy (anonymous):

semicolon is outdated in modern English but that stilll doesn't make the use incorrect.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Goddamit;people suck at writing. is a perfectly acceptable way of using semicolon.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I can't tell if I've been insulted or if you are trying to help in a douche kind of way.

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