Semicolon
Semicolons (;) serve two basic functions:
1. To separate closely related, independent clauses that are not joined by and,but, or or
A revolutionary design is one matter; executing the design in record time is quite another.
2. To substitute for a comma when the items to be separated contain internal commas
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The word that follows a semicolon is not capitalized unless it is a proper noun. The semicolon is placed after the closing quotation mark or parenthesis.