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Semicolon

The semicolon is a simple piece of punctuation, much easier to work with than the comma because it follows fairly clear rules.  If you learn the two simple rules explained here, you’ll rarely go wrong.  It has two main uses, which are both easy to identify.  You use it to connect two independent clauses together into one sentence, and you use it as a super-comma.  You can use it in a few other unusual situations, but they come up rarely, and there are other ways to handle those situations.   Learn them if you want to be perfect, but if you learn to recognize the two primary uses, you will do fine as semicolon user.

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