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Slide 1 - Tekstslide
ELOS
• explore the concept of the punctuation mark, semicolon.
• understand it’s usage.
• identify the instances where it is not used.
• recall the concept of coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS).
• identify the difference between a period and a semicolon and a colon and a semicolon.
Slide 2 - Tekstslide
What are various punctuation marks?
Slide 3 - Open vraag
Which punctuation mark is this and what is it used for?
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Slide 4 - Open vraag
What is the difference
between a period
and semicolon?
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Slide 5 - Open vraag
A period divides sentences while a semicolon links them. A semicolon adds more texture to the writing.
Slide 6 - Tekstslide
I am hungry. I should go to the cafeteria.
Here use of period as a division line of two sentences can be observed.
I am hungry; I should go to the cafeteria.
Here second part is related to the first and so semicolon is used to show the link between the two.
Slide 7 - Tekstslide
Thus one use of semicolon is to link sentences.
Slide 8 - Tekstslide
Frame a sentence of your own using the first use of semicolon.
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Slide 9 - Open vraag
Observe the sentence
Meet my friends. Tina from Meerut Neha from Aligarh Mohit from Delhi Sunidhi from Ghaziabad and Ankita from Mumbai.
Slide 10 - Tekstslide
The sentence contains mixed information. The second use of semicolon is to provide clarity to the sentences with mixed information.
Slide 11 - Tekstslide
Observe the sentence now.
Meet my friends. Tina, from Meerut
;
Neha
,
from Aligarh ; Mohit, from Delhi ; Sunidhi, from Ghaziabad and Ankita from Mumbai.
Slide 12 - Tekstslide
Frame a sentence with mixed information using a semicolon.
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Slide 13 - Open vraag
Before proceeding, recall coordinating conjunctions.
Slide 14 - Tekstslide
She is tired; since she has been working for 4 hours.
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She will come definitely; and if her sister is free, she will come too.
(Observe the use of semicolon and comma both.)
(A semicolon is used just before a coordinating conjunction and the conjunction should always begin with a lowercase letter)
Slide 16 - Tekstslide
Create a sentence of your own using any of the coordinating conjunctions.
Slide 17 - Open vraag
Never confuse colons with semicolons.
For specifying a list we always use colons.
Slide 18 - Tekstslide
Get these items from market : kit, chair, pen and a notebook.
Get these items from market ; kit, chair, pen and a notebook.
Slide 19 - Tekstslide
Hope you all have understood semicolon well.
Slide 20 - Tekstslide
Summary.
Semicolon is used to :
link sentences
give clarity to sentences with mixed chunks of information.+
Never use them while specifying lists.Use colon instead.
Slide 21 - Tekstslide
Difference between comma, period and semicolon
Comma gives a pause
Period divides sentences.
Semicolon links sentences.
Slide 22 - Tekstslide
Homefun
• Read the lesson, ‘The Story of my Life’.
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