Tag: grammar

04 Mar 2008

The Oxford Comma

This subject has come up three times in the past two days, including a request to write a post on this. I don’t know why I am considered a grammatical authority, but as a slave to my reader(s), I write up a post.
The use of said comma will likely not lead to ambiguity whereas the [...]

23 Dec 2007

Guns and … Commas?

I want to grab my Chicago Manual before reading this, but it is lost in a box right now, so I’ll just pass this along before reading.

The right to keep and bear adjuncts
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on District of Columbia v. Heller, commas and clauses are in the news. Adam Freedman [...]