How To Use The Oxford Comma

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When I started writing my MSc thesis I was told many times to be careful with the English comma when enumerating items. Well, I have to admit that I didn’t quite understand what was all that about.

Recently I found a crystal clear example of how to deal with commas. Furthermore, I discovered it is called the Oxford Comma. Now I don’t have any excuse to not use it correctly.

 

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Posted on 26 October 2011

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