This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I address a frequently broken grammar rule and tell you how to fix it. This week's installment is about the semicolon. You know that keyboard key under your right pinky finger? Yeah, the one that you never seem to use? That's the semicolon key. It's probably the most under-used key on the home row. It really shouldn't be there, but now that it is, might as well figure out how to use it, right?

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This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I address a frequently broken grammar rule and tell you how to fix it. This week's installment is about the comma splice, and it's among the most pervasive errors I see on FiMFiction.

Making a comma splice is kind of like switching its cutie mark à la Magical Mystery Cure; you're forcing the comma into a role that it was never meant to play in. Stop making the comma sad and learn how to use it properly!

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This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I soapbox about a grammar subject I find interesting. You might, too! This week's installment is a little different; as a sort of poor "apology" for not posting anything grammar-related for the last few weeks, here's a three-for-one! I'll be covering the predicate nominative, conjunctive adverb, and apostrophe use.

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