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For the music album, see Semicolon (EP). For use on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Semicolon.
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The semicolon; (or semi-colon[1]) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, such as when restating the preceding idea with a different expression. When a semicolon joins two or more ideas in one sentence, those ideas are then given equal rank.[2] Semicolons can also be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of the list themselves have embedded commas.[3]
The semicolon is one of the least understood of the standard marks, and is not frequently used by many English speakers.[4]
In the QWERTY keyboard layout, the semicolon resides in the unshifted homerow beneath the little finger of the right hand and has become widely used in programming languages as a statement separator or terminator.[5]
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^"Using semicolons". The Writing Center. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-11-08. A semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought. When a semicolon is used to join two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then given equal position or rank.
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