semi colons are used in English often for things such as lists, it is also a way of separating information and telling you that there is some information coming.
No, they are different punctuation marks and they have different uses. A colon ( : ) should always be preceded by a complete sentence, and it is sometimes used instead of a period. There are two ways...
A colon is used to emphasize a specific part of a sentence; the part of the sentence before the colon must be able to stand by itself as its own sentence, however, Example: I could think of only...
A semicolon is used most commonly to join two independent clauses. In the following sentence, for example, a semicolon (not a comma) is used to make two sentences one. "Judas Priest is a very popular...