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-==What's the difference between a semicolon and a comma?==
+Lakeisha Williams
+Dr. Lucas
+English 1101
+July 10, 2006
+                     ==The Difference Between a Semicolon and a Comma==
+           ===Semicolons===
+          The number one difference in semicolons is the fact it's outside quotations and
+commas are inside quotations. The semicolon is used to seperate major sentence elements of
+equal grammatical rank, use a semicolon come between items in a series containing internal
+punctuation,use a semicolon between closely related independent clauses not joined with a
+coordinating conjunction