Question marks and semicolons

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unusual food

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preferences? Question mark.

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You're not alone. Nope. That's all fine.

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We have a question mark at the end of a

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question. And what do we call the line

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with the dot below it after alone?

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It's an exclamation mark or exclamation

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point. Exclamations are short words or

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phrases you say or shout to show

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emotion. They're more common in informal

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writing.

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Try not to use too many or it will seem

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like you're shouting all the time.

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Okay, next line. There's one mistake

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here. While the pineapple on pizza

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debate is a classic, comma,

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far stranger combinations exist,

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semicolon, and they work incredibly

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well. Well, what's that funny looking

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symbol after exist?

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It's a semicolon and unfortunately it

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doesn't belong there.

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Now, semicolons aren't that common in

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English and using them correctly is

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quite tricky. So, we'll focus on one

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rule here.

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Semicolons join two related independent

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clauses. They can replace coordinating

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conjunctions