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is this the right use of a semicolon?
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where would you put the semicolon?

Last approach is to purchase textbooks; established around improving grammar and academic writing, which can be used for clarification.
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>>7842266
I think that first clause is a fragment. there should be a "the" there I think
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>>7842275
No, it's not.
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>>7842302
Meant to reply to op
>>7842266
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>>7842266
Not really; the second clause needs to work as an independent sentence, e.g.:

>Last approach is to purchase textbooks; established around improving grammar and academic writing, they can be used for clarification.
Which gives the reader some information about textbooks. Alternatively, you can do away which the semicolon, i.e.:

>Last approach is to purchase textbooks established around improving grammar and academic writing, which can be used for clarification.
This results in a sentence wherein the type of textbooks is specified. The two sentences are quite different in meaning, but I’m not sure which one you wanted to use.
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