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You Asked Me This Question / Correct Use of the Semi Colon

« on: March 27, 2012, 04:46:11 AM »

I'm glad to have found this forum.. one thing which I get frustrated about is the correct use of the semi colon.. that's the ; symbol.

I know that it can be use when listing such as... "There was a list of friends: Richard; Cliff; Peter; Sally etc"

Can you explain how to use it properly in other situations with examples?

Thanks
Aardvark!

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Badly Written, Badly Spoken / Re: So many serious grammar errors in six local textbooks teaching English!

« on: March 27, 2012, 04:37:20 AM »

Children these days seem to have their own language they learn from other school children at school. They are inventing new words and phrases all the time.

My friends teenage son deliberately mixes up the tense for words.. for example, he would say something like "I is home now" and he knows it's slang.. the problem is the little one, he doesn't realize that it's bad use of English and has started to adopt this!