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JT45242

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14. the Oxford comma is underappreciated for its preciseness

Reply to raccoon (Reply #12)

Fri Sep 25, 2020, 09:06 AM

Sep 2020

There have been lawsuits that the Oxford comma was used to delineate exactly what was meant.

For precision, use the comma.

For more realistic looking dialogue in a novel or play, you may omit to indicate that in normal conversation there is no pause.

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Written English question about usage of a comma [View all] steve2470 Sep 2020 OP

A is common but B is more proper C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #1

Agreed DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #2

lol! patricia92243 Sep 2020 #5

Precisely. nt tblue37 Sep 2020 #8

LOL! Vinnie From Indy Sep 2020 #9

LOL Just_Vote_Dem Sep 2020 #10

Yes. Exactly. But, I wish people would focus more on including commas where it clarifies, avoiding hlthe2b Sep 2020 #17

Commas give clarity AnnaLee Sep 2020 #3

Commas save lives Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #4

I love three things: eating my family and not using commas. soothsayer Sep 2020 #11

B is more proper, but then there is ... Croney Sep 2020 #6

Hello, darkness, my old friend, is technically correct. n/t Laelth Sep 2020 #13

Put the punctuation inside the quotation points. Always start a new line and Doodley Sep 2020 #7

About the commA, then there's: raccoon Sep 2020 #12

the Oxford comma is underappreciated for its preciseness JT45242 Sep 2020 #14

We gonna get all Strunk & White up in heah! Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #15

I was a junior in high school when an English teacher finally admitted that there are no abqtommy Sep 2020 #16

Irrelevant to the question, but commas should be inside quotation marks. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #18