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Exercise For Semi-Colons

The document provides guidance on using semi-colons correctly by replacing them with periods. It gives examples of correctly using semi-colons and sentences for the reader to practice inserting semi-colons. The document also prompts the reader to write their own sentences using semi-colons.

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Exercise For Semi-Colons

The document provides guidance on using semi-colons correctly by replacing them with periods. It gives examples of correctly using semi-colons and sentences for the reader to practice inserting semi-colons. The document also prompts the reader to write their own sentences using semi-colons.

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SPaG Starters Semi-Colons

A good way to check whether you have used a semi-colon correctly is to


see if you can replace it with a full stop. If the clauses either side of the
full stop still make sense independently, then you have used the semi-
colon correctly.
;
e.g.
The bus was so overcrowded; I felt really claustrophobic.
Each sentence either side is an independent clause; the semi-colon could be replaced by
a full stop.

Can you insert semi-colons into these sentences?


1. The students were asked to line up on the yard sensibly during the fire drill the teachers
needed to quickly take registers.

2. The sports hall was temporarily closed it had rained heavily at the weekend and it
had flooded.

3. The school library was closed on Thursday lunch times the librarian used this time to
reorganise everything.

4. The caretaker had cut the grass on the school field at break time it made my
hayfever worse.

Now have a go at writing your own sentences making use of a semi-colon. Remember to be
ambitious in your vocabulary choices.



SPaG Starters Semi-Colons Answers
1. The students were asked to line up on the yard sensibly during the fire drill; the teachers
needed to quickly take registers.

2. The sports hall was temporarily closed; it had rained heavily at the weekend and it
had flooded.

3. The school library was closed on Thursday lunch times; the librarian used this time to
reorganise everything.

4. The caretaker had cut the grass on the school field; at break time it made my
hayfever worse.

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