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Please Share on Social Media! The Oxford Comma

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Peyton Stafford

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I respect your judgment and can post on social media, but at least here in the USA, this is such an elementary point that promoting it might backfire in that my followers, who are mostly librarians and writers, would think that you had nothing new to say.

When I was a child in elementary school, my teacher explained the Oxford comma and said that in business writing the comma could usually be dispensed with because the writing was clear and easy to understand, whereas in stories it was often needed because the meaning was deeper and the opportunity for misunderstanding therefore greater.

Please advise. I will post depending on your thoughts.
 

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