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Poll: Nobody is going to do silly things with him around...

Nobody is going to do silly things with him around...

, they wouldn�t dare.
; they wouldn�t dare.
: they wouldn�t dare.
- they wouldn�t dare.

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This Poll:

  • Votes: 447
  • Comments: 5
  • Added: September 2004

Comments:

Thornton

semi-colons are for that purpose alone. You wouldn't dare use them...

gardemarine

You cannot use semi-colon here because semi-colons are used to split two parts of the sentence that are not related to one another.
Need to use colon because colon is a substitute of a word "because".

Mind the stop

I don't agree; a semi-colon is like a comma + a conjunction.

Dalriata

A semi-colon is used to split sentences and create lists. A colon is correct, although a dash (or hyphen) is probably acceptable in modern standards.

leo masar

A semi colon is correct. Separating the two clauses by a comma is a mistake called "comma splice".

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