Seems much ado about nothing and overly pedantic. The latter sentence needs no comma; the former, only one to be understood. Excess punctuation is just clutter. Ironically the Oxford comma is not encouraged by the university's style book.
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Seems much ado about nothing and overly pedantic. The latter sentence needs no comma; the former, only one to be understood. Excess punctuation is just clutter. Ironically the Oxford comma is not encouraged by the university's style book.
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Maybe anonymous can read some more Kerouac; reach the end of the sentence, but still not know where it started.
ReplyDeleteI like the Oxford comma - I always use it.
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