Controversial Divisions of The Oxford Comma

Splitting Words or Splitting Hairs?

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Grammarians are divided by the necessity of the Oxford comma. If its intent was to make a sentence clear and unambiguous, how has it landed in such ambiguous territory?

Serial Comma :: a comma used to separate the second-to-last item in a list from a final item introduced by the conjunction and or or — called also series comma…