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From: <kimberly3g -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: January 27, 2003 09:27 AM
Subject: comma question
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| When listing items in a sentence, the rule is to separate the items with
| commas. What is the rule on putting a comma before the conjunction
| separating the last item in the list? For example, the following
| sentence:
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| He asked her to go to the store, buy her groceries, and cook her dinner.
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It's called a "serial comma" and you will find many good treatments about it
on the Internet that include some wonderful examples of why it is preferred.
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