When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...

UK civil servants should avoid using Oxford commas in their work, the incoming Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey has said. But what is an Oxford comma, what are some examples, and why is Liz ...

THE OXFORD COMMA is a form of punctuation - but it's become a cause of much debate over its usage. We all use commas when writing lists of things. But the Oxford comma has a very special place - it ...

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary].

There’s no denying that commas are helpful little flecks of punctuation. They allow us to separate written clauses and do good work when especially numerous or complicated groups of things exist in a ...

SEVERAL months ago I w as surprised to see Arnold Zwicky, a linguist, use a comma splice. A few commenters took me to task for being over-picky. The question came up again in the comments several days ...