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to give a kid a commendation OUTRIGHT for simply...

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TheElephant · 04/02/2010 18:17

using a semi colon in some work?

ladies

the heavens opened

there was a celestial chorus
I have nEVER seen one before

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HappySeven · 04/02/2010 19:03

I'm very impressed, was it used correctly and everything? I'm assuming you're a teacher, in which case, well done for installing such standards!

roisin · 04/02/2010 19:06

The thing is they often don't transfer/apply knowledge across subject boundaries.

My yr8 intervention groups stick them in all over the place when writing for me, because I told them it gets me all excited and I give them higher grades!

TheElephant · 04/02/2010 19:07

and oen for initiative then R

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foxinsocks · 04/02/2010 19:07

lol

I wondered what you were on about

brimfull · 04/02/2010 19:08

def should get Head of year prize

roisin · 04/02/2010 19:16

yy definitely.
Thinking outside the box, transferring skills, making links between subjects.

MangoTango · 04/02/2010 19:30

Ahem...cough. So when do you actually ..ahem.. use a semi colon?

Goblinchild · 04/02/2010 19:59

Use a semicolon when you link two independent clauses with no connecting words.

You can also use a semicolon when you join two independent clauses together with one of the following conjunctive adverbs: however, moreover, therefore, consequently, otherwise, nevertheless, thus, etc.

Clear as mud, see?

cloelia · 04/02/2010 20:02

Goblinchild I am impressed, conjunctive adverbs! Are you a teacher of languages? Why are they a type of adverb? Why not simply call them conjunctions? PS this is a serious question; I am genuinely curious.

TheElephant · 04/02/2010 20:38

then i got bored and in another book only managed to write " commendation for being clever"

i dont hitnk you are allwoed to say that oddlyt

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janeite · 04/02/2010 20:42

Yes, yes, yes. I made my Yr 11s BE semi-colons the other week. They had to wriggle around until they could find their rightful 'home' in a sentence.

MrsC2010 · 04/02/2010 20:44

A semi-colon?!!! Ye gads, I am dispairing just trying to get my teens (pupils, not DCs) just to use capital letters!! A would pass out cold if I saw a semi-colon correctly used.

DandyLioness · 04/02/2010 20:45

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Hassled · 04/02/2010 20:47

I love a good semi-colon; they warm the cockles of my heart.

MrsC2010 · 04/02/2010 20:49

I love a good semi-colon.

WingedVictory · 04/02/2010 20:55

Semi-colons are brilliant. Sentences are so abrupt. You see?

HappySeven · 04/02/2010 21:02

cloelia, your post made me laugh out loud!

cloelia · 04/02/2010 21:34

I thank you Happyseven. I too am smiling though I fear you are laughing at not with.

HappySeven · 05/02/2010 08:29

Definitely with, cloelia. It was the "PS this is a serious question; I am genuinely curious"

StealthPolarBear · 05/02/2010 08:31

he didn't use it to make a winking smiley did he?
;)

MangoTango · 05/02/2010 10:45

Can I see a few more examples of semi colons being used in sentences please, to drum it home. Or should that be "please; to drum it home?"
The grammar teaching when i was at school in 70s/80s was a bit sketchy so i want to learn now! Thanks.

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