[stylist] Commas and semi-colons

[Aine Kelly-Costello]

Sorry, I meant a semicolon  after each item in the list except 
the last.  Would this example be right?

Bob had a busy schedule yesterday: he went to the supermarket; 
found a toy, which he bought for his son; went for a 5 km run; 
went to the gym; and at last, exhausted, came home, only to find 
the kitchen was a mess and the laundry needed doing.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com
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Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:57:30 -0600
Subject: [stylist] Commas and semi-colons

You would use a colon for listing items and not a semi-colon.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:10:04 +1300
From: Aine Kelly Costello <ainekc at gmail.com
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To add to that, I think semicolons are also used to list items,
in the case where one or more of said items contains a comma


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