heshamelaziry wrote:Marcia had overwhelming support from her party during the election, this partisan assistance enabled her to win handily.

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The OE says that these are two independant clauses and need to be joind with "AND". If they are independant, they should stand without "and". What is the difference here if there were a semicolon ?

Saying "Marcia had overwhelming support from her party during the election, this partisan assistance...." would be a clear run-on sentence. That would be two independent clauses without a conjunction or semicolon, which is definitionally a run-on.

Semi-colons enable you to have consecutive independent clauses without having to start a new sentence. Ex:

Mike really loved Shawna; her wit always brightened his day.

If we were to replace the semicolon with a comma, we'd have a run-on.

@heshamelaziry

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