By 
Emma Bryce
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How to use a semicolon

It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon. [Directed by Karrot Entertainment, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Tom Jordan].

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