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Independent clauses
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Plural of independent clause
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Independent clauses are great; try joining them with a semicolon.
Independent clauses are great but don't mash them together.
Independent clauses are great don't mash them together.
Independent clauses in a single sentence with no conjunction should indeed be separated by a semicolon, not a comma.
A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses.
5.Do Not Join Independent Clauses with a Comma.
Semicolon - Use a semicolon when you link two independent clauses with no connecting words.
Do you really have to count to two in between two related but independent clauses before you use it?
Hence, "Please put it in a trash can; that's good news for everyone" consists of two independent clauses, the latter building on the former.
By contrast, Harris & Vincent (1980) argue that (at least in existential and clefted cases) subject contact relatives are not truly relative clauses, but are in fact independent clauses.
This comedy of commas continues with "What is this person's age and what is this person's date of birth?" The two independent clauses call for separation by a comma after "age".
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