Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

People who care about grammar love the serial comma, aka the Oxford or Harvard comma. They love it because they were instructed to use it in school, and they love it because it supposedly reduces ...

Quite some time ago, my wife (Gina the Gorgeous) was introduced to the Pinterest website (you can also download a special Pinterest app to your smartphone or tablet). In the old days before computers, ...

There's a cartoon about commas going around on the Internet. The first panel reads: "With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin." The illustration shows four people: two men, one ...

There’s a cartoon about commas going around on the Internet. The first panel reads: “With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.” The illustration shows four people: two men, one ...

A New York Times story last month on the new head of Britain’s state run health care system telling employees to avoid using the Oxford comma caught the eye of reader Dan Worrells of Lake San Marcos.

In school, I was taught about conjunctions (e.g. or and and) and the role they play in sentence structure – they are linking words. They do what they say on the tin: con-(i.e. with) and -junction (i.e ...

Editor’s Note: John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, philosophy and music history at Columbia University and is the author of “Words on the Move.” The opinions expressed in this ...

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 ...