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Semicolon

Semicolons (;) are sometimes used instead of full stops, in cases where sentences are grammatically independent but the meaning is closely connected.

• Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.
• Women’s conversation is cooperative; men’s is competitive.
• The Hobbit was published in 1937; the first volume of The Lord of the Rings followed in 1954.