Transcript Semicolons_and_Colons

Semicolons and Colons
; and :
Joins two independent clauses
• Rachel works for the news; my brother Bill
works in entertainment.
Independent Clauses with transition words.
I thought the party would never end;
however, the police proved me wrong.
Lists with commas in the units
• In his career, Keith has interviewed
Howard Dean, the former governor of
Vermont; John Bolton, former ambassador
to the U.N.; the Dalai Lama, and Michael
Jackson, the former King of Pop.
Colons: Time and Plays
• Hamlet: Forsooth, it is 2:34 in the
morn. Pray tell, at what hour doth the sun rise.
Title:Subtitle
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln…
Bible ReferenceChapter:Verse
I Kings 16:18
Related Clauses
• Joins Two Independent where the second
explains the first.
• My dog is the perfect hiking companion:
Siberian huskies have boundless energy.
Preceding a list
• Please purchase the following items: paint,
brushes, and an easel.
• Don’t
• Split prepositional phrases or
verb/compliment links.
I ate: sushi, steak, and scallops
The post office delivers during: rain, sleet,
and snow.
Set long formal quotes
• Thoreau’s Walden is best summed up in
his conclusion that resonates with
naturalists of all stripes: “I went to the
woods to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not when it
came time to die discover that I had not
lived.”