Settling the Oxford Comma Debate, Once and For All…

Amelia Zimmerman
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3 min readMar 19, 2020

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There might be no subject more debated and scrutinised in the grammar world than the serial comma. Known alternately as the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma, the serial comma is the final comma in a list of three or more things. It comes directly after the second-last thing in the list and directly before the last coordinate conjunction (and/or). It doesn’t matter whether the things in the lists are…

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Amelia Zimmerman
Write to Edit

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