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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (341)	1/3/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: opalapril	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

>> "And it's all for nought, when by day's end Mother calls them home for dinner, and, sadly, reality returns."<< I agree with your criticism, and enjoyed your subtly raising a related issue about beginning a sentence with a conjunction. I'm not such a purist I won't, but does the conventional view of the practice say something about the changed use of semicolons as well? In an era when a sentence didn't start with And or But, was the semicolon more useful than it is today?