Why is a semicolon required in the following sentence?

The waves rippled across the ocean; sunlight dappled the water and the sand.

Because if it looks like a run on and if its related to the first part before the ; then use it but if not use a period make since hope this helped!

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because the monkey liked the beaf

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jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.