The Importance of a Semicolon

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ce Rodrigo Angel 7/16/2012 Mr. Mcpherson The Importance of a Semicolon The most important punctuation mark is the semicolon. The semicolon is a good punctuation mark because when writing a paper you want to add or extend more information for the audience or reader. The semicolon is also important because when you are using a semicolon while you are writing a paper, the semicolon can be a pause. And last but not least, the semicolon is important because the semicolon can be use to make two sentences relate to one. The semicolon is a good punctuation mark because when writing a paper you want to add or extend more information for the audience or reader. If you add more information when you are writing a paper or article for the audience or reader, you will be able to provide more information for the reader or audience to read. For example, if you are writing a paper and you add a sentence like this one “While searching for a good place to get a delicious burger, I traveled to Seattle, Washington; Tokyo, Japan; and London.” This is a great example because when you read this sentence, you are also starting to get a good understand on how people use a semicolon and how it also provides more information for the reader, to understand what is going on in this sentence. This is a one good example why semicolons are good punctuation marks. The semicolon is also important because when you are using a semicolon while you are writing a paper, the semicolon can be a pause. One example, I got out from the Internet was pretty funny to me. The example was talking about dinosaurs, this is the example I got from the Internet “When dinosaurs agree on something, they’ll often high five one another; dinosaurs are all about high fives”. I mean the example sounds kind of funny because it talks about dinosaur’s high fiving themselves; when they agree on something but when writing a
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