What is the Oxford Comma?
The Oxford comma is a comma placed before a conjunction such as ‘and’ within a list.
I would like to visit the following Oxford colleges – Lady Margaret Hall, Trinity, New College, and Magdalen College.
The Oxford comma is so called because this grammar tradition was used by the Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Comma can be useful for clarity, especially in the following example.
The colours of the shields of the above Oxford colleges are: Blue and yellow, green, red and white, and Purple.
The Oxford Comma is sometimes known as the Harvard comma
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