Punctuation help

Outburst

Hello,

Looking for a bit of help with editing a piece of writing.

Let's just take this as a terrible example:

I want to eat Ice-cream, I want to hold it, I want to cherish it.

1) If the object (Ice-cream) is replaced by a pronoun (it), are the subsequent sections full sentences (I'm guessing they are)?

2) If they are, it would seem that this is a case of comma splicing. Since another function of the comma is listing, and the above sentences are listing what I want to do to Ice-cream, is this acceptable punctuation? (I suspect it isn't)

Thanks!

Permabear

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Outburst

Thanks

deman

Donegalfella is correct; use semi-colons.

But one question to the OP...

Why capitalise ice-cream?

Outburst

I think it's important enough to deserve a capital letter, don't you think so? Or maybe it was because I was holding down shift to get the bracket : )

FlutterinBantam

I wouldn't give it the dash though, except maybe of raspberry.

Neither would I give one to semicolon.


:P