SUMMARY OF RULES--CONTINUED.
SEMICOLON AND COLON.
+Semicolon+.--Co-ordinate clauses, (1) when slightly connected, or (2) when
themselves divided by the comma, must be separated by the semicolon. Use
the semicolon (3) between serial phrases or clauses having a common
dependence on something which precedes or follows; and (4) before _as_, _to
wit_, _namely_, _i_. _e_., and _that is_, when they introduce examples or
illustrations.
+Direction+.--_Justify each capital letter and each mark of punctuation
(except the colon) in these sentences_:--
1. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it
will richly compensate for both.
2. Some words are delightful to the ear; as, _Ontario_, _golden_, _oriole_.
3. The shouts of revelry had died away; the roar of the lion had ceased;
the last loiterer had retired from the banquet; and the lights in the
palace of the victor were extinguished.
4. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who
heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw
their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill: and the
very walls will cry out in its support.
+Direction+.---_Use capital letters and the proper marks of punctuation in
these sentences, and give your reasons_:--
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