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punctuation and connectors Punctuation marks are tools of Western writing that emerged in order to make a text more understandable. They are mainly used to indicate pauses.
The colon Before a list that is introducend by a complete sentence, Before a quotation, to separate charper and verse in scripture, to separate hours for minutes, to show rations.
comma Use commas to separate items in a list of three or more, To separate independet clauses (complete thoughts) when they are joined by the following conjunctions.
Semicolon To combine two o closely related complete sentences (independet clauses) which are not joined by a conjunctions, To separate complete sentences (independent clauses) that are joined by a conjunctive adverb, To separate items in a list when commas alone would be confusing.
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