Question

What is the semicolon doing in this sentence?

I haven’t decided what I want to do this weekend\redD{;};start color #e84d39, ;, end color #e84d39 I’d like to go to my friend’s barbecue, but there is also a cherry picking festival happening in Lancaster. Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) It's separating items in a complex list. A
It's separating items in a complex list. (Choice B) It’s uniting two closely connected clauses. B
It’s uniting two closely connected clauses

Answer 1

It's separating coordinate clauses in complex sentences.

Step-by-step explanation:

a punctuation mark semicolon (;) indicates a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.