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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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If you're using a semi colon, you need to make sure it's a stand-alone sentence on both sides.
If you're using standalone as an adjective, you need to make sure it's hyphenated or a single word.
Thanks, fixed
You might be the only person in the country that knows how to use semi colons then. I thought it was just when you are already breaking apart a sentence in commas and want a list within one of those comma breaks.
If you mean like when you’re creating a list of items that already contain commas, such as New York, NY; Boston, MA; and Sacramento, CA, then that is also a valid use of semicolons.
My error was writing my sentence with a valid semicolon, then editing the sentence structure without replacing the semicolon with a comma before posting.