Blog 39

For my screw ups with grammar usage, I would have to say the dreadful semicolons have to be at the top of the list. I do not know what it is, but I have always felt like a failure with grammar usage. This is probably because none of my elementary, junior high, or high school teachers ever really focused on it. This is the same explanation I gave my mom every time I got my ACT score back and the English was the lowest score. I swear, the English department in my schools focused solely on reading comprehension. The first time I have ever even used a semicolon in one of my papers is in this class. This year…that is something I should be embarrassed about. I have got to be doing something wrong if I never use them at all. Leslie probably taught me more about grammar in one day than what I have learned in my whole life. Let’s see, apparently these are the times you are supposed to include the dreadful semi-colon: “Use a semicolon in place of a period to separate two sentences where the conjunction has been left out…Use the semicolon to separate units of a series when one or more of the units contain commas…Use the semicolon between two sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction when one or more commas appear in the first sentence.” So yeah, I never use it; however, I will hopefully learn how to use this for future papers. See, I am already learning;)