http://tony.rightquick.org/wordpress/2007/04/10/links-for-2007-04-10/ The innermost thoughts of an eclectic FOURTH-grade teacher... chronicling the demise of the future by making others waste time reading this and other gobble-dee gook. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 http://tony.rightquick.org/wordpress/2007/04/10/links-for-2007-04-10/#comment-6559 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:49:22 +0000 http://tony.rightquick.org/wordpress/2007/04/10/links-for-2007-04-10/#comment-6559 This is great that my old school grammar rules have been confirmed. It has frustrated me for years that hardly anyone follows Rule #3 anymore. When you are listing more than two items, there should always be a comma before the "and". This rule is completely logical, yet somewhere in between my grade school and college years it has morphed where it is not only acceptable, but considered standard to not include the comma prior to the "and". I have never understood why this happened. This is great that my old school grammar rules have been confirmed. It has frustrated me for years that hardly anyone follows Rule #3 anymore. When you are listing more than two items, there should always be a comma before the “and”. This rule is completely logical, yet somewhere in between my grade school and college years it has morphed where it is not only acceptable, but considered standard to not include the comma prior to the “and”. I have never understood why this happened.

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