Reply To: Teach me how to:

Ok but take funnybone’s examples. Wouldn’t have been better use a conjunction (I googled ‘but’, ‘and’ and ‘yet’ and that’s what it said they were).

I am going home; I intend to stay there.

I am going home and I intend to stay there.

It rained heavily in the afternoon; we managed to have our picnic anyway.

It rained heavily in the afternoon, yet we managed to have our picnic anyway.

They couldn’t make it to the summit and back before dark; they decided to camp for the night.

The couldn’t make it to the summit and back before dark so they decided to camp for the night.

It seems to me that when you are connecting two independent clauses with a semicolon instead of a conjunction the sentences sound disjointed.