کار نقطه‌ویرگول به هم پیوند دادن دو جمله مستقل است که برای هم فایده داشته باشند چرا که از جهتی به هم مربوط هستند. 
A semicolon's job is to reunite two independent clauses that will benefit from one another's company because they refer to the same thing. 