By smugly correcting minor spelling mistakes and typos on people’s posts. It must be working, there’s a large crowd gathered outside my house with a guillotine. I wonder who they want to put in it? I’m going outside to see now.

  • moujikman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Your paragraph would have stronger emphasis with a semicolon after ‘working’, not a comma. It must be working; there's a large crowd gathered outside my house with a guillotine. A semicolon is used to separate two independent clauses that are closely related in thought but could stand as separate sentences. It offers a stronger pause than a comma but is less final than a period.