Example:—Stones grow; vegetables grow and live; animals grow, live, and feel.
A semicolon is put before as, viz., to-wit, namely, i. e., or that is, when they precede an example or a specification of particulars, or subjects enumerated; and also between these particulars when they consist each of a disjunct pair of words, or of a single word or phrase but slightly connected with the others.
Example:—Many words are differently spelled in English; as, “Inquire, enquire; jail, gaol; skeptic, sceptic.”
Comma [,].—Two words belonging to the same part of speech, or used as such, when closely connected by one of the conjunctions and, or, nor, are not separated by a comma from each other.
Example:—Pay supreme and undivided homage to goodness and truth.
Two words of the same part of speech and in the same construction, if used without a conjunction between them, are separated from each other by a comma.
Example:—We are fearfully, wonderfully made.
Two nouns or pronouns in apposition, or a noun and a pronoun, should not be separated by a comma if they may be regarded as a proper name or as a single phrase.
Example:—The poet Milton wrote excellent prose and better poetry.
But a noun or pronoun and a phrase, or two or more phrases, if put in apposition so that they may not be so regarded, are separated by a comma from each other, and from what follows in the same sentence.