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Let's look at the sentence: Only lions have a fluffy mane; lionesses don’t.

This sentence is telling us that only lions (the boy lions) have the soft, fluffy hair called a mane. The girl lions, called lionesses, don’t have this fluffy mane.

Grammatically, the sentence is correct! It has two parts joined by a semicolon (;), which is used here to connect two related ideas.

So, the sentence means: Boy lions have the fluffy mane, but girl lions do not.


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