Semicolons: Master this mark!

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Do you think you know your semicolons? Try our quiz and see if you can identify which of these sentences use this punctuation mark correctly.

1. The auditors made six recommendations, however; only one has been adopted so far.
2. Although the auditors made six recommendations; only one has been adopted so far.
3. The client approved of the recommendations; they were, however, inconvenient and expensive to implement.
4. The tour will stop in these cities: London, England; Paris, France; and Rome, Italy.
5. The Asian countries sent six representatives; the African countries, five.
6. What the director actually said was; "it's time to get down to business."
7. Vitaly and Irena were happy with the results; yet they wanted to recheck the data.
  
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