Several weeks ago, a reader suggested that Word-wise address semicolons. (Thanks, Ben! Readers, I'm always glad to hear your suggestions.)

I think he's right. Semicolons are certainly one of the least understood marks we use in English. And that's unfortunate. If we wanted to, we could go into lots of fine grammatical detail about when to use semicolons. But it isn't necessary. Pretty much all we need to know about semicolons boils down to two general uses:

• to connect related independent clauses
• in a series, to separate items that have internal punctuation

Independent clauses
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