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Independent clauses should be joined

with a comma
with a semicolon
rarely
with a colon

User Banty Roy
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Independent clauses should be joined with a comma or semicolon based off the structure of the sentence. Semicolons are most often used to combine two independent clauses.
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with a comma or semicolon depending on the desired grammatical structure and the relationship between the clauses
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