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31 May 2012, 14:56
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Reading quality literature is suggested around the forums as one of the way to increase verbal skills. I tried doing that and got even more confused.
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
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31 May 2012, 15:11
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Reading quality literature is suggested around the forums as one of the way to increase verbal skills. I tried doing that and got even more confused.
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
You are right, but the rules can be broken. Don't do so on the GMAT. Writers break the rules often.
What follows the semicolon in this case is a non-restrictive modifier, an absolute modifier. A comma would have been more appropriate.
31 May 2012, 16:38
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Reading quality literature is suggested around the forums as one of the way to increase verbal skills. I tried doing that and got even more confused.
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
Here is the first sentence of Babbit, nobal prize winning nobel:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Now, doesn't what follows the semi colon has to be full sentence? Is so, what is the verb in the second sentence here?
Experts please help!
You are right, but the rules can be broken. Don't do so on the GMAT. Writers break the rules often.
What follows the semicolon in this case is a non-restrictive modifier, an absolute modifier. A comma would have been more appropriate.
I would have chosen a dash in your example rather than semicolon or comma, showing further how you can't put stock in style choices.
