Sunday, March 15, 2009

DUIN Fail III

The DUIN staff apparently doesn't know how to use semicolons properly.

From the article "Where the green is at" on page 30:

"A 'green product' is defined as something that is made, and shipped, environmentally friendly; meaning no airplanes or trucks spewing fumes to pollute the Earth."

Semicolons are used to connect TWO INDEPENDENT CLAUSES. "Meaning no airplanes or trucks spewing fumes to pollute the Earth" isn't independent because it relies on the first half of the sentence to get its meaning across.

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