Ready to lose an hour of sleep this weekend? It's that time of year: Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, which means clocks will spring forward while you're (hopefully) sleeping on Saturday night. When you go back to work on Monday, how will you write time?

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Last week we did a punctuation quiz, testing your knowledge of semicolons. Here's how you responded:

There are two ways to use a semicolon:

1. Use a semicolon to connect two closely related sentences. But note the "sentences" part of that sentence: Semicolons only connect complete sentences. If you don't have a complete sentence after the semicolon, use a comma. That was the trick to recognizing the problems with the first, third and fourth answer choices.
2. Use a semicolon as a "supercomma" to limit confusion. If the second answer choice above had only commas, it would be hard to tell how many people "he" was survived by.

Here's how to punctuate the first, third and fourth answer choices above:

He found the strategy compelling, just not the part where he would have to work all weekend.

The manuscript needs revisions to chapters three, four and six, along with a complete rewrite of the conclusion.

She thanked four people in her speech: Akhmat Ezra, her drama teacher; Otto Milian, her agent; and her parents, Anika and Connor.

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