https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/serial-commas-lists/ Master Grammar and Skills Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/serial-commas-lists/#comment-31232 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:16:33 +0000 https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/?p=5915#comment-31232 Excellent examples – thank you Phil. I shall use them to beat my (Welsh) cousin round the ears over his insistence that there is only one kind of Oxford comma. He maintains it is only a question of whether to include it before the final item in a list (for the sake of tidiness or visual appearance), but will not concede that its inclusion can alter the meaning of that list or sentence. Your very clear examples make it clear that there can be several different interpretations of the same sentence, depending on where the comma is placed (if at all).

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