Hand out 1

Nina Yang

10/21/2014

W&C III

·  Comma VS. Semicolon in a compound sentence

·  Comma：

·  Semicolon：

·  Compound sentence：

1.     Independence clause, (FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) Independence clause

2.     Independence clause; Independence clause

·A compound sentence is consisted by 2 independent clause, but you can not put 2 independents clause together by adding only a comma or a FANBOYS. However, you can either add both of them, or just by adding a semicolon between the two independent clauses.