Compound Sentence without Coordinating Conjunction

When a compound sentence, which has two independent clauses, has no coordinating conjunction between those two independent clauses, the recommended punctuation is a semicolon. The pattern looks like this:

Note: You cannot use a comma to join these two independent clauses because there is no coordinating conjunction. When two independent clauses occur in the same sentence, the semicolon is mandatory. You may also replace the semicolon with a period and create two sentences.