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As a horrible writer,

I had to learn a lot; trust me.

One thing I recently learned

was when to use colons and semicolons.

And there’s a saying that says

“If you wanna learn something twice,

you gotta teach it.”

So here I am.

let me teach you.

Let’s start with semi-colons.

You can use it in two ways.

one:

When you have to connect

two closely related ideas.

So this is the casual way of reading a sentence

without semi-colon.

They love chocolates.

I can’t stand it.

(Dot) gives a full stop,

and it makes the sentence boring.

So we use a semi-colon

to connect these two.

They love chocolates; I can’t stand it.

See?

It’s connected and not robotic.

Number two…

It’s used to separate items in a list

Let’s see what we have here.

For the pudding

it’s a desert, by the way,

we need:

Berries, fresh, summer ones;

Milk, preferably full fat;

And… Whatever

So take a look at these semi-colons.

Each line represents an item

and a preferable description for that item.

Berries (the item)

fresh, summer ones (the description),

we are finished talking about the berries,

so in the next line, we talk about milk

and how we want it.

We used semi-colons

to separate berries and milk.

And colons…

we use it in three ways:

one:

For a list like the one we had a moment ago.

two:

To isolate words to create emphasis.

Like this example.

He knew what he was feeling: Fear.

I’m sorry

We are isolating the word fear

from the main sentence

to put more emphasis on it.

And the last one:

Number 3:

To introduce quotes

Let’s say you are writing about a situation

and you want to mention a quote from someone.

For example:

I saw Kambiz on the street;

he said:

“Why don’t you have Zabanshenas installed

on your phone?

Don’t you wanna learn English?”

checkout the link in bio

or this link….

zabanshenas.com/install

see?

That’s a quote from Kambiz

not me

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