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].

In elementary school, we learn that there are logical rules for the use of punctuation. Semicolons connect two related independent clauses, while colons follow an independent clause and introduce a ...

Do your clients and the courts a favor -- when distinguishing items in a list, choose critical clarity, avoid confusion, and include the Oxford comma. If you know appellate judges, you know they are ...