Dashes & Semicolons

[Motsu]

Your example is wrong.

People really need to double-check themselves before posting about the hard-and-fast rules.

And you have a better example?

 

[GDLiZy]

And you have a better example?

His agility stat is high; he runs fast.

The semi-colon is used to connect two independent sentences that are related by logic.

 

[Motsu]

His agility stat is high; he runs fast.

The semi-colon is used to connect two independent sentences that are related by logic.

And was mine any different than yours?

 

[GDLiZy]

And was mine any different than yours?

'From all of those streaks of mistakes; we inevitably lost.'

"From all of those streaks of mistakes" isn't a sentence. It's a phrase. Therefore you can't use a semi-colon to connect it with the independent clause that follows.

'From all of those streaks of mistakes, we inevitably lost.' is the correct grammatical structure.

 

[Motsu]

'From all of those streaks of mistakes; we inevitably lost.'

"From all of those streaks of mistakes" isn't a sentence. It's a phrase. Therefore you can't use a semi-colon to connect it with the independent clause that follows.

'From all of those streaks of mistakes, we inevitably lost.' is the correct grammatical structure.

Thanks for making an example and a correction. Now the OP can learn from this thread :)

 

[Tony]

Locked on OP's request