ABSTRACT
Semicolons with Lists. Lists of more than two items that consist of long phrases or clauses are usually divided up with semicolons instead of commas:
Note that because of the length of this list, and because in the third item of the list there is yet another three-item list as well, the authors have chosen to include numerals as well as semicolons to divide the material. This is seldom necessary, but in the present instance it certainly helps. (See also COMMAS, and particularly Commas and coordination: Compound sentences and compound verbs or predicates.)
similar to. See COMPARISON.
