Chapter 10: On-Site Wastewater Treatment. 1  community or private drinking water supplies are not threatened; 2  direct human exposure is not possible; 3  waste is inaccessible to vectors, insects, rodents, or other possible carriers; 4  all environmental laws and regulations are complied with; and. 5  odor or aesthetic nuisances are not created.
The last major use of the comma, semicolon, and period hierarchy is in Erlang (1986), where commas separate expressions; semicolons separate clauses, both for control flow and for function clauses; and periods terminate statements, such as function definitions or module attributes, not the entire program.
Using a semicolon to extend a sentence is very handy. However, if you find yourself using them regularly, you should probably adjust the style of your writing. NOT A COMMA. It is possible to link two sentences together with a semicolon. It is also possible to link two sentences with comma + conjunction (e.g. , and, , or and, but) . Here's the key part: You cannot use just a comma to link two sentences. This is a very common mistake called a run-on error.