<p>That means you can go to up to anyone in the whole school and have a decent conversation about a given subject area, it makes the school more diverse.</p>
<p>Is it correct to place the comma there, or should it be a semicolon?</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m really bad at punctuation, it’s pretty embarrassing.</p>
<p>Neither. Rewrite the sentence. As it stands, it makes no sense. The two pronouns (“That” and “it”) don’t relate to the same antecedent.</p>
<p>I would rewrite it as:
“That you can go up to anyone in the whole school and have a decent conversation about a given subject area makes the school more diverse.”
or
“The ability to go up to anyone in the whole school and have a decent conversation about a given subject area makes the school more diverse.”</p>
<p>FYI, you had an extra “to” in the first 7 words of the sentence</p>
<p>spooch’s second sentence sounds good: “The ability to go up to anyone in the whole school and have a decent conversation about a given subject area makes the school more diverse.”</p>
<p>The ability to go up to anyone in the school and have a decent conversation about any given subject makes the school more diverse.</p>
<p>how omit whole and area</p>