Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oxford comma is the comma used before the final conjunction in a list of three or more items. When writing a list, of course, ...

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].

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 ...

Q: Years (and years!) ago when I learned grammar and usage from the Sisters of St. Joseph in a Brooklyn, N.Y., grammar school, a series of nouns used a comma to separate the nouns until the last one, ...

From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are taking a trip in a foreign country. You are driving a rental car that you got at the airport. What could help you find your way in ...

A student in my “History of the English Language” course stopped me after class a few weeks ago and asked, “I was just wondering—how do you feel about the Oxford comma?” She could have asked about the ...

The New York Times has been running a series called "Draft" in its Opinionator blog at the Opinion pages. Today, Ben Yagoda posted an entry, The Most Comma Mistakes, the second part of a series on the ...