A few weeks ago, I mentioned in this space that serial commas, also called Oxford commas, are a matter of style. So either “red, white and blue” or “red, white, and blue” can be correct depending on ...

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary].

Commas are, important and shouldn’t just be, thrown in, anywhere. Like some, people, apparently do. With some, writers it’s like they, have a bucket full of commas and they, feel compelled to, use ...