Commas are among the most useful punctuation marks in English. Across genres, they perform functions strategic to effective communication ...

The most frequent use of the semi-colon is between two complete sentences. It can be substituted for a comma plus a conjunction. Ex: Tom ate breakfast with his family, and then he left for his trip.

Series—If one or more elements in a series contain a comma, use semicolons to separate them. Include a semicolon before the final conjunction. (Members of the Western Jazz Quartet are Tom Knific, ...

Using a colon to introduce a list and semi-colons to separate items in a descriptive list are explained. This short film is from the BBC series, Punctuation Rules. If pupils are working on a piece ...

Hany rengier from Germany asks: In the German language, we put the comma before the relative pronoun. Does that apply to the English language? What about the semi-colon and colon and their usage?

A comma would leave you with a run-on sentence ... In this film Farmer Frank learns about colons and semi-colons whilst egg collecting, unaware that his ostriches have laid a trap for him ...