Semicolons

A semicolon connects two separate ideas that are too different that you cannot connect them with just a common transition word, but are also unable to stand as their own sentences. This is helpful in writing, because sometimes it is necessary to put two separate ideas together by a semicolon, because you don’t want to, or have the ability to expand the ideas, or they are just fine and don’t need expansion to make sense, but they are still too different to just leave them with a comma and be done. So we use a semicolon, which is a clean split, without making it two separate sentences.