: Re: Partial clauses after semi-colons I recently read a novel with a section that went something like this: "I have often wished that I had born into a different family; that I had never studied

This is much easier to accept if it's a first-person narrative, because the book is written in your character's voice. Speech/monologue/dialogue is much more forgiving than prose narration. Since these snippets are clearly your narrator "speaking" to the reader, you have a lot of poetic license to be flexible with grammar. It sounds fine.

If anything, I'd use commas rather than semi-colons in those particular snippets because the individual clauses don't have commas themselves. You can get away with a string of fragments separated by commas here. If any clause had commas in it, then the semi-colons would be useful in separating them.

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: Re: Partial clauses after semi-colons I recently read a novel with a section that went something like this: "I have often wished that I had born into a different family; that I had never studied

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: I think what's being missed here is the idea that what makes something a "perfect" world is not the same for everyone. If you want an example of a utopia, try The Wizard of Oz and the

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