Mel

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation 7th Grade English/Writing Teacher
Location Connecticut, United States
Introduction I'm a teacher, and I don't like homework either.
Interests Reading reading reading!
Favorite Music Tegan & Sara, Cat Powers, Death Cab for Cutie, Tragically Hip, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Regina Spektor, Bruce Springsteen, Cake
Favorite Books His Dark Materials, Ice Queen, Silas Marner, The Book Thief, Edith Wharton novels, Crichton novels, Fever 1793, Twilight, Donna Jo Napoli, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ray Bradbury, The Grapes of Wrath, The Giver, My Sister's Keeper, Margaret Atwood (poetry), We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Amulet, Wintergirls, The Hunger Games

This is a colon : and this is a semi-colon ; - what's a semi-truck?

Well, semi-colons are used to join two related independent clauses that aren't joined with a FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction). So this would make a semi-truck a truck that joins two otherwise independent trucks?