<p>I love her, so I gave her a rose.</p>
<p>Is "so" supposed to follow a comma or a semicolon?</p>
<p>“I love her, so I gave her a rose.”
“I love her; so, I have her a rose.”</p>
<p>Either would be correct, I believe.</p>
<p>Yeah I think so too, though IMO ‘therefore’ would sound better after the semicolon, and ‘so’ sounds more natural after the comma. But I’m just one guy.</p>
<p>@Tigerb - The second one is not correct, because if you use a semicolon, both sides have to have an independent clause. “so, I gave her a rose” is not an independent clause. If you use a semicolon you need to get rid of “so”.</p>
<p>^He is correct.</p>