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   From: sodden@nod.com   
      
   On 05 Mar 2018, "Colonel Edmund J. Burke"    
   posted some news:DznnC.166335$YR7.160236@fx34.iad:   
      
   > On 3/5/2018 2:52 PM, dale wrote:   
   >> On 3/4/2018 11:33 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:   
   >>> I have written an entire chapter on punctuation with restrictive and   
   >>> nonrestrictive constructions.  In the simplest form, restrictive   
   >>> material is not set off from the main clause because its inclusion   
   >>> is necessary to understand the whole proposition.  Nonrestrictive   
   >>> material is considered parenthetical, that is, supplementary info   
   >>> whose inclusion simply adds more info, but whose omission does not   
   >>> change the meaning of the whole construction.   
   >>>   
   >>> Regards,   
   >>> Colonel Edmund J. Burke   
   >>> Author & World Wide Grammarian   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> could you remind me when to use a semicolon?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Certainly.  Most often we use one to strongly join independent   
   > clauses.  Semicolons also have their use between independent clauses   
   > containing internal punctuation, like a comma.  We sometimes use   
   > semicolons in a series containing internal punctuation.  The semicolon   
   > has other uses, too.   
      
   Indeed.  When used in conjunction with barack obama, it's a helper for a   
   dangling penisipper.   
      
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