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

[TheElephant]

using a semi colon in some work?

ladies

the heavens opened

there was a celestial chorus
I have nEVER seen one before

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!

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!

and oen for initiative then R

lol

I wondered what you were on about

def should get Head of year prize

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I love a good semi-colon.

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

cloelia, your post made me laugh out loud!

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

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

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

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.