What is the use of using colon and semicolon in a sentence?
Colon: The colon as a gate, inviting one to go on. You nearly always have a sense of what is going to follow or be on the other side of the colon. Example: There is only one thing left to do now: confess while you still have time. We also use a colon after a salutation in a business letter . . . Dear Senator Tom: Semicolon; 1. By using a semicolon instead of a period between two sentences, you show that those two sentences have a closer relationship to each other than they do to the sentences around them! 2. Think of a comma as a brief pause, a semicolon as a more moderate pause, and a period as a stop, and you can see the logic of the hierarchy.
