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 ...

Let’s eat Grandma vs. Let’s eat, Grandma.” Classic middle school English teacher vibes. In all seriousness, though, these cornball axioms serve a purpose. Kenyon is a writer’s college by name, and we ...

Something rare and shocking happened this week: It actually mattered whether someone used an Oxford comma. The Oxford comma, otherwise known as the serial comma, is considered optional. When in use, ...

The Oxford comma. Not just the title of a Vampire Weekend song, it’s the pesky piece of extraneous grammar that sits before the conjunction in a list. For example, in the phrase “apples, oranges, and ...

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 ...

A Variety headline posted on social media drew some laughs recently. “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise.” “He’s gay AND Tom Cruise?” one observer mused. “He ...