Apostrophe 　 Brackets 　 Colon 　 Comma 　 Dash 　 Ellipses 　 Exclamation Point 　 Hyphen 　 Parentheses 　 Period 　 Question Mark 　 Quotation Marks 　 Semicolon 　 Slash

Semicolon 　 　 A. semicolon은 등위접속사를 포함하지 않고 중문 안에 각각의 독립된 절을 구분하기 위하여 사용된다. 1. I crashed the car; I am lucky to be alive. 2. The questions are provided by the analyst; the answers come from the data. 　 　 　 따라서 semicolon과 등위접속사가 다음 문장 (1)처럼 함께 사용할 수 없다. 　 1. I wanted to play for the team; but I was cut. (x) 　 2. I wanted to play for the team; I was cut. (o) 3. I wanted to play for the team but I was cut. (o) B. 이미 comma로 구분된 항목들을 다시 그룹별로 구분하고자 할 때 사용된다. 1. We visited Cooperstown, New York; Niagara Falls; and Syracuse, New York. 2. Among the guests were Katherine Ericson; her daughter, Alice; Henry Faulkner, formerly of the Redding Institute; and two couples whom I could not identify. C. 중문 안에서 접속부사에 의하여 연결되는 각 절은 semicolon으로 서로 연결될 수 있다. 1. You must pay your taxes on time; otherwise, you will be punished. 2. The cities that had been bombed were in ruins; indeed, they looked like extinct craters.

I crashed the car; I am lucky to be alive.

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