• English-language punctuation, the serial comma, also referred to as the series comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma, is a comma placed immediately after the...
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  • apples, peaches, and bananas. (serial comma used) We cleaned up cores, pits and skins. (serial comma omitted) The serial comma is used much more often, usually...
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    Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and newlines to separate records. A CSV file stores tabular data...
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  • Serial Bus, also known as USB Serial code or serial number Serial comma Serial killer Serial relation in mathematics, a binary relation R that relates every...
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  • Punctuation (redirect from Question comma)
    question marks, and exclamation points.[further explanation needed] The serial comma is used much more often in the United States than in the UK. Other languages...
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  • between the two last conjuncts: "I will need bread, cheese and ham". The serial comma is not usually used in front of the conjunction between the last two...
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  • Look up comma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A comma (,) is a type of punctuation mark. Comma, commas, or , may also refer to: Comma (music), a type...
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  • postal addresses. This style also eschews optional commas in sentences, including the serial comma. Open punctuation also frequently drops apostrophes...
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  • 19, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Nancy Tuten, "Oxford (or Serial) Commas: Using a Comma before AND in a List" Archived May 26, 2022, at the Wayback...
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    the end of a list without conjunction, a comma is typically written in front of the phrase (but see Serial comma). If etc. is used at the end of a sentence...
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  • Logical conjunction Logical disjunction Polysyndeton Relativizer Serial comma – the comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction preceding the...
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  • points in the abbreviations, but eschews the comma after them (it similarly drops the title's serial comma before "and", which most UK and many US publishers...
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  • Semicolon (redirect from Super-comma)
    internal punctuation, especially parenthetic commas, where the semicolons function as the serial commas for the entire series or listing. The semicolon...
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  • regular comma when separating words constituting a list. Chinese language does not traditionally observe the English custom of a serial comma (the comma before...
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  • or Oxford Down, a breed of sheep originating in England Oxford comma, the serial comma Oxford English, a formal style of English Oxford "-er", a type...
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  • sentences Natural language processing Paraprosdokian Reading span task Serial comma The Purple People Eater Transderivational search Oaks, Dallin D. (2010)...
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  • several other historical or technical names. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or'...
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  • is one of the earliest known sources that recommend using a serial comma or "Oxford comma", citing a written recommendation by Herbert Spencer. An epitome...
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  • than one attribute after a determined word, for enumerations (but the serial comma is not used), between coordinated or subordinated clauses, between direct...
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  • before a full stop at the end of a sentence. The comma is used between for enumerations (but the serial comma is not used), before adversative conjunctions...
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  • "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" (originally without a serial comma) is the 156th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the...
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    but the serial comma is not used in Spanish: España, Francia y Portugal ('Spain, France(,) and Portugal'). There are some cases in which the comma after...
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  • skip and similar link-level conditions. At least one of them (i.e. a "comma" symbol) needs to be used to define the alignment of the 10-bit symbols...
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  • points in the abbreviations, but eschews the comma after them (it similarly drops the title's serial comma before "and", which most UK and many US publishers...
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  • absolute adjectives double negative History of English grammars preposition serial comma singular they split infinitive superlative of two y'all Wright, Laura...
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    rBST-treated and non rBST-treated cows. Oakhurst does not use rBST in its milk. Serial comma § Maine labor dispute "Oakhurst Dairy (page 1)". BNET.com. Retrieved...
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  • and the city of Hartford. The Journal Inquirer uses the "Oxford" or serial comma, unlike most American newspapers that follow The Associated Press Stylebook...
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  • kinds of non-diatonic scales. Some of the very smallest ones are called commas, and describe small discrepancies, observed in some tuning systems, between...
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  • case-specific policies for references. The Herald does not employ the serial comma, and favors the word "said" after a quote over "mentioned", "pointed...
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    Asynchronous Serial Interface, or ASI, is a method of carrying an MPEG Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) over 75-ohm copper coaxial cable or optical fiber. It...
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