<p>I'm writing one of my essays, and not looking to wait for my teacher in a week.</p>
<p>I have a bit which basically follows this format(completely different text of course):</p>
<p>People seek many experiences: to run and jump through the city; to parachute through the mountains; to travel in Europe, biking to the cities which brought America its culture ........</p>
<p>Is this the proper way to punctuate? With full phrases you use semicolons, right?</p>
<p>I think that commas would be more correct.</p>
<p>1)no! use commas, not semicolons. Only use semicolons if the sentence could stand on its own otherwise. "To parachute through mountains" is not a complete though.</p>
<p>2)I hope the text you used is really different, because it's pretty hard to parachute through a mountain ;)</p>
<p>Yes, my text was very different.</p>
<p>My worry with commas was that I have commas within my phrases, so that it might not be clear.</p>
<p>semicolons only seperate independent clauses... those aren't independent</p>
<p>ok. That was the rule I couldn't think of. My actual essay has dependent clauses too, so I guess commas it is.</p>
<p>I feel stupid.</p>
<p>NO! You guys are wrong! Semi-colons are used to separate independent clauses OR items in a list where one of the items includes a comma!!!</p>
<p>...Sorry, got kind of excited, lmao.</p>
<p>I'm sure it's fine and understandable either way. Just use whatever seems to flow better.</p>
<p>I guess Poseur is right...</p>
<p>I hate grammar</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Good thing I came back to this thread, I thought it was done.</p>