When I was English instructor at a community college, I taught students that the comma preceding the “and” in a series was optional, like when you write “The butterflies, hummingbird and finch . . .” Optional means that it was … Continue reading
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Commas in a Series

Double Possession–Punctuation Lesson

I always pause when faced with a possessive construction that involves two people. Do you add the apostrophe “s” to both names or only to the latter one? Somewhere along the line I learned to put it on both names, … Continue reading