"Its lobby is huge; it's one of the largest......

Posted by DRD #37 at adsl-154-13-41.asm.bellsouth.net on October 21, 2003 at 19:15:01:

In Reply to: howabout if i just post the rest? posted by grizzly on October 21, 2003 at 18:26:47:

.....hotels in North America."

The semicolon is used to separate two clauses that share a similar idea, rather than separate them into two sentences, making it redundant.

(I'm an English teacher; you can trust me on this.)

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