Expressive Punctuation: Semicolons
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Standards

Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
expressive punctuation
semicolons
expressing related ideas
linking devices
- Purpose
- Use semicolons to express relationship between ideas or to separate items in a list.
- Description
- This lesson uses extracts from Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle and Alice Sebold's Lucky to illustrate ways of using semicolons to link related ideas.