Use commas or semicolons to indicate juxtaposition, transition, cause and effect, and other relationships between clauses.

The semicolon is a punctuation mark between a comma and a period. It is mainly used to separate two sentences that have a certain relationship (parallel, transition, succession, cause and effect, etc., usually parallel relationships). Sentence - A clause can belong to a single repeated sentence, or it can be the first-level clause of a multiple repeated sentence, or it can be a parallel part of a larger sentence.

The comma divides the sentence into meaning groups, indicating a pause that is smaller than a semicolon and larger than a period. The comma is the most frequently used punctuation mark in Chinese and most foreign languages. Korean uses more periods than commas as a special case. The comma has the widest range of uses and is flexible in usage.

Extended information:

Usage of commas and semicolons in sentences:

1. If there is a pause after the adverbial inside the sentence, use a comma. For example: He is no stranger to this city.

2. For pauses between clauses in a complex sentence, commas are always used except for sometimes semicolons.

3. In a single repetitive sentence, the clauses can be separated by commas or semicolons when they do not contain commas. When they contain commas, they should be separated by semicolons.

4. Semicolons are used to separate the first-level clauses of multiple repetitive sentences. First, we must examine the parallel relationship.

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