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Semicolon
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The
semicolon (or
semi-colon) 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. 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.
The semicolon is one of the least understood of the
standard marks, and is not frequently used by many
English speakers.
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.
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