1. Use semicolon to join complete thoughts that aren't already connected by a comma or conjunction. Such sentences must be related to each other in content
2. Use the semicolon to join two complete thoughts that include transitional words such as "however," "otherwise," "moreover," "furthermore," "therefore," or "consequently"
3. A semicolon may be used to mark off items or phrases in a series when the items themselves contain many commas that may become confusing
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Good, but the semicolon only works with certain transitional words, not all. A key is that the words should normally be conjunctions -- that is, the word or phrase joins two clauses. Then, they need to join the clauses in such a way that either clause could stand alone as a sentence. Then, one doesn't usually use a semicolon when the conjunction is one of the FANBOYS.
(Clauses, as you may remember, are strings of words that include a noun-verb combination).
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