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Seriously: Use the serial comma

by Sheila Wallace on Friday, November 13, 2009, 7:49 am

in Grammar Tips

The serial comma (a.k.a. the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before the conjunction that precedes the final item in a series of three or more items. In simple sentences, omitting the serial comma may be acceptable; however, ambiguities causing misinterpretations arise in more complex sentence constructions. Its use is [...]

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