Posted by grizzly at ip68-11-175-97.br.no.cox.net on October 21, 2003 at 19:16:33:
In Reply to: "Its lobby is huge; it's one of the largest...... posted by DRD #37 on October 21, 2003 at 19:15:01:
thats what ms word was suggesting i use instead of a comma, but i dont trust word, it makes mistakes!
: .....hotels in North America."
: The semicolon is used to separate two clauses that share a similar idea, rather than separate them into two sentences, making it redundant.
: (I'm an English teacher; you can trust me on this.)