What is the semicolon doing in this sentence?
I haven’t decided what I want to do this weekend; I’d like to go to my friend’s barbecue, but there is also a cherry picking festival happening in Lancaster.
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The semicolon in this sentence is used to connect two independent clauses. It separates the main clause "I haven’t decided what I want to do this weekend" from the subordinate clause "I’d like to go to my friend’s barbecue, but there is also a cherry picking festival happening in Lancaster."
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