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How can you tell when a sentence needs a comma or semicolon?

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A comma and a semi-colon both serve to separate parts of sentence that have their own specific subject matter, but the separation is slightly greater in the case of a semi-colon; it marks off a statement that could almost but not quite serve as a new sentence, rather than merely as a clause of the ongoing sentence. Commas are a lesser degree of separation.

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