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At school it was optional. During my level 3 Eng Lang it was actively discouraged...so was over-use of semi-colons...
I am a swine with commas. I have had to train myself out of littering my writing with them (with greater or lesser success depending on my mood:P). I used to basically throw in a comma every time I felt it needed a pause. I wasn't really concerned with grammatical usage.
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