Of all the punctuation marks, the semicolon is far from the most popular. It's fallen in usage since it's heyday in the 1800s. Why was it so big then, and what changed? It might be that folks ...

Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a semicolon links independent clauses of equal standing. Below are some helpful tips on how to use semicolons ...

(He wrote "Crisis Management by Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing.") A semicolon has two general uses: to clarify a series and to indicate two closely related sentences.

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way ...