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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It's separating coordinate clauses in complex sentences.
It's uniting two closely connected clauses
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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Answer 3 and 5 for brainliest. i don’t have a link for #3 sadly.

Edgar allan poe uses many sound devices in his poem "the bells." which two words from the poem are examples of onomatopoeia?