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Semicolon : How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life/ Cecelia Watson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : 4th Estate, 2019Description: 212 pages Illustrations 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780008291563
Subject(s): Summary: One punctuation mark encapsulates this thorny issue more clearly than any other. The semicolon. Hated by Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Orwell, and loved by Herman Melville, Henry James and Rebecca Solnit, it is the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language, and many are too scared to go near it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?
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One punctuation mark encapsulates this thorny issue more clearly than any other. The semicolon. Hated by Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Orwell, and loved by Herman Melville, Henry James and Rebecca Solnit, it is the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language, and many are too scared to go near it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?

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