can I use the word "so" after a semicolon, or a colon for that matter?
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It is always going to depend on the sentance, of course.  But in that particular one, I would personally replace the semi colon with a regular comma.  \n\nThen it would read like: "Nothing is truly difficult when done correctly, so you should be completely relaxed."
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one about correct comma placement?
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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B. You are stating two separate ideas here, so a comma is appropriate. The colon is used when you want to define the phrase, but here you have separate phrases, so you don't modify or define here. D. is also incorrect because you are defining the action of the sea, and not describing it. It would be the same as saying "I, went to the bus station."
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Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
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While historically the use of the semicolon and colon were similar, modern usage seems to be diverging, with semicolons indicating breaks slightly stronger than commas and colons introducing lists and explanations. \nSemicolons have always been used in a manner very similar to commas, but with greater "weight."  That is, the semicolon introduces greater breaks in the sentence, dividing clauses which are longer and more independent, while commas are reserved for short pauses and for separating lists of short items.\nContinuing up the continuum, colons are "weightier" than semicolons, but less so than periods.  They introduce a break which is longer or more important than that introduced by semicolons, but not as final as periods.  Colons separate clauses which can stand as independent sentences grammatically, while semicolons can also be used for non-sentential clauses.\nHowever, in modern writing the colon is rarely used in this role as glorified semicolon.  The colon has developed a specific semantics as a break separating an introduction from an explanation.  For example, the colon is used after the salutation in formal letters.  It is used to introduce quotes, separating the source from the quoted text.  A colon is used to introduce a list, included bulleted lists.  A colon is used to separate the parts in a multipart title, such as "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" or "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't".
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Yes.\n\nIt's used in the sentence that you posed as a question.
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♥ = & hearts ;\n\nand hearts semicolon
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Word=drum&bluhm, brum, brumm, bum, chum, clum, come, crum, crumb, crumm, cum, drumm, dum, dumb, dumm, from, frum, glum, grum, gum, gumm, hum, humm, klumb, krum, krumm, krumme, kumm, lum, lumb, lumm, maam, mum, mumm, mumme, numb, pflum, plum, plumb, rum, schrum, schum, schumm, scum, shrum, shum, slum, some, strum, stum, stumm, sum, swum, thum, thumb, thumm, um, umm, yum
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Yeah, it is correct to say "one" or "a person". It's so much easier just to say "you" tho. I always find myself tripping up on that. I think most people use "you" the wrong way.
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The semicolon should be later, as in:\n\nPhysical beauty: with disease it fades; with age it dies.
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Object of a preposition.
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"Eres el amor de mi vida" if you are using the "tu" form\n"Sos el amor de mi vida" if you are using "vos"\n"Usted es el amor de mi vida" if you are using "usted"
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Like this:\n\nConsole.Write( "This " );\nConsole.Write( "is on a single line." )\n\nConsole.WriteLine( "" );\nConsole.WriteLine( "This is on a different line" );\nConsole.WriteLine( "This is too!" );
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A colon looks like : and is usually used at the start of lists, for example,\nFor Christmas I would like: DVDs, music and some turkey.\nA semi-colon looks like ; and is used in the place of a conjunction - a word that links two sentences, for example:\nThe boy ran to the shops because he wanted to avoid the rain,\ncan be replaced with\nThe boy ran to the shops; he wanted to avoid the rain.
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<body onload="a(); b();"> \n\nor\n///////////////////\nfunction c()\n{\n\na(); //if you need order\nb();\n \n}\n<body onload="c();"> \n\n///////////////////////////
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There are many reasons to use either the semicolon or colon.   Use a colon before introducing a list, a formal quotation, or an enumeration that is preceded by expressions like "as follows, thus, the following."\nFor example:  We recorded our findings thus: heart, normal; lungs, normal; pulse, normal.\n\nUse a colon before an explanation or list when 'namely' can be mentally added before that explanation or list and it makes sense. For example:  The Court ruled on two counts: first, negligence; second, cruelty.\n\nBasically, a semicolon is used to separate two independent clauses that are closely related in meaning and that have no coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor) placed between them.  E.g.  No one is at fault; no one should be blamed.\n\nUse a semicolon to separate phrases or clauses in a series when the phrases or clauses themselves have commas.  (Examples of that are used in some of the colon examples I gave you.)\n\nHope this helps.  There are more rules.