Semicolon

Every time I go to visit my grandparents in Florida we go fishing. We take their little boat out onto the salty sea and sit for a while. One of my best memories was when it was getting late and we were going to start heading home. But I hadn’t caught a fish yet, so I asked “Papa just one more minute”, he laughed and gave me that one more minute. Almost in an instant my bouy went underwater and I reeled in a giant silverfish. I have never seen him so proud. This day will forever stick in my head…

to see one. A longer, more continuous phrase is then broken by a comma, drawing attention to how this so called enemy never hurts the characters. The following inclusion of a dash creates a longer pause than the previous comma does, but the last semicolon brings the longest pause of them all. As a result, these various pauses evenly separate the last three phrases, creating an uncertain tone doubting the character’s necessity to prepare. Such rhythmic interruptions allow Knowles to slowly…

me from my favorite authors. I assumed my teachers must know. Unfortunately, I was young, and elementary school teachers are not AP English teachers. What we were told then: Commas go wherever you would take a breath while reading and never use semicolons or…

Semester Final Each person writes a different way, and each of us has different strengths and weaknesses. As the semester draws to a close and as classes come to an end, it’s time to reflect on what those strengths and weaknesses are. My strengths and weaknesses, as well as other factors soon to be mentioned, are the reason I am the writer that I am. Throughout this semester, many aspects of my writing have changed. However, my approach to writing papers has stayed fairly consistent. I still…

commas, and parentheses he was able to do so. I agree that the comma can be easily overused, but I also know that in some cases I use them way too often. Now that I look back on my past essays I rarely use the semicolon. As Lewis said that periods “tells you that is that”, but with semicolons you can add more. The word banality and banal were in the used and they respectively mean “lacking in originality.” With exclamation points I don’t find myself using them in essays, only in…

I never was a kid that loved Reading and Writing. Science and History were my favorite subjects from elementary to high school. I always had a problem with grammar and sentence structure, I never understood where to place a comma, a semicolon or a period. It was always funny to me that my favorite part of any English class was when it came down to poems, I loved writing poems it was something about them that freed my mind. I can’t remember my first poem but I do remember that it was the first…

experiences when going through the adolescent periods of their lives. Dillard and Ascher write in different styles overall but still use some of the same schemes and tropes of rhetorical grammar. Dillard favors long sentences full of commas and semicolons as she tries to fit as much detail as possible into each statement. Most of her sentences last three lines on the page, but her longest sentence spans almost five with details such as “laughing with Ellin” and “dancing…across a polished…

evident in Act III scene ii, during the revelation Tybalt’s death by Romeo’s doing: “My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; and Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband”(3.2.104-106). The passage, punctuated with commas, periods, and semicolons in a very routine manner had created an utmost serious tone in Juliet’s dialogue to the Nurse. Readers were able to learn of Juliet’s devastation, as she realizes that the survival of one of her family members would have resulted in another…

I often misplaced a comma ending up with a comma splice or misused a semicolon in a run on sentence. I knew early on in the course this would be an area that would give me some difficulty. Fortunately for me the course content helped me understand grammar and its importance in the written English language. With tools like Comfit…

my choice. So when it comes to writing long papers i'm no stranger to it, it almost feels normal now and isn't that scary. With that being said there was a few things here and there I did learn. I learned from the is class how to use commas and semicolons correctly in a sentence. I always had struggled with correctly placing punctuation in a…