Ruminations & Reviews
Ruminations & Reviews
  • Home
  • Recommended Reading
  • On the Table
  • About
Browsing Tag
clarity
Blog Clarity Precision Truth

A Lesson from the “Oxford Comma”

Okay, I own up! The tag-line for this site—“A Blog About Theology, Thinking, Reading, Writing, and Teaching”—does have an “Oxford comma,” aka the “serial comma.”

The “Oxford comma” is the comma placed before the word “and” in a list of three or more items for the purpose of clarification. The “Grammarly Blog” offers this humorous example of its merit:

I love my parents, Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.

Continue reading
Reading time: 2 min

Recent Posts

Life!

22 April 2020

I Sat Among My Books Last Night

12 April 2020

Preacher Tone: Let’s Not!

25 March 2020

A Lesson from the “Oxford Comma”

8 May 2019

We Watch Every Year!

11 December 2015

Calendar

January 2023
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Apr    

Tag Cloud

Apologetics Clarity Culture Doctrine Faithfulness Good Fight Gospel Perseverance Postmodernism Precision Reading Thinking Truth

© 2020 B. Spencer Haygood, Jr.
Designed by Premiumcoding