[notes]
1. You can certainly avoid the semicolon, though you're going to find yourself facing either choppy separate sentences that don't need to be either choppy or separate or comma splices, which are not the worst sin on earth but don't belong in many kinds of prose.
1. You can certainly avoid the semicolon, though you're going to find yourself facing either choppy separate sentences that don't need to be either choppy or separate or comma splices, which are not the worst sin on earth but don't belong in many kinds of prose.
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I photocopied pages of Woolf's essays & used them to wrap a book for him in my final year at Uni. Full of semicolons, that gift wrapping was. Positively loaded with 'em!
"Give the candy to whoever wants it." ✅
"Give the candy to whomever wants it." 😱
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/whomever-vs-whoever-choose-the-right-word
for whom the candy is,
it is for thee
On the other hand, it's clear that no-one now knows what a colon does.