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The one thing about grammar that I don’ think I will ever be good at is knowing when to use a comma, a semicolon, or a colon. I have heard the rules from so many different English teachers, but when I am writing a sentence or a paper, I always seem to screw it up. I feel that there is always multiple ways to write a sentence, and you can manipulate the structure to however you please. I always try to make it the most simple sentence in order to get my grammar right, but this leads to a lot of boring sentences. When I try to switch up the sentence structure, I always make some sort of error with my commas, and word tells me to use semi-colons. When I use semi-colons word tells me to use commas. I really hate using colons, because it seems as if they stop the flow of the reading. I use commas all of the time, and I think that I use them too much. I know you are supposed to use a semi-colon to connect two closely related independent clauses; I know I could have used a comma and a conjunction previously instead of a semi-colon, but each time I go to write, Microsoft Word likes to underline my sentence with a squiggly green line to tell me that I wrote my sentence wrong. This has to be the most frustrating thing in the world for me when it comes to writing.