To recap, the Oxford comma separates the last two items in a list, as in "red, white, and blue". For reasons opaque, the use or non-use of the final comma here stirs passions all out of proportion ...

Copy editor Bill Walsh explains which punctuation marks can be used to create a dramatic pause -- and how to use them correctly.

Many people do not know how to use a comma correctly. Timothy Harper, a writing coach, and professor at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism told Business Insider he recommends a "comma diet ...

Q: Years (and years!) ago when I learned grammar and usage from the Sisters of St. Joseph in a Brooklyn, N.Y., grammar school, a series of nouns used a comma to separate the nouns until the last on… ...

A day devoted to grammar hasn’t brought the Oxford comma debate any closer to resolution. Perhaps punctuation enthusiasts will forever argue about whether its use is right, wrong or just a ...

I mean this only metaphorically — no bloody fingers — but using incorrect grammar was the Eighth Deadly Sin in my childhood home. How grateful I am that this was so.

Q. I am still puzzled by the rules governing the punctuation of nouns in apposition. For example, should there or should there not be commas surrounding the name in this phrase: “my son Bill&… ...

The Grammar Geek replied: “I would remove that comma, but wouldn’t put up a fight if the author preferred leaving it in.” My friend Karen Conlin replied to Grammar Geek: “Same.

I mean this only metaphorically — no bloody fingers — but using incorrect grammar was the Eighth Deadly Sin in my childhood home. How grateful I am that this was so.