IN A SENTENCE WITH A LIST OF THREE OR MORE ITEMS, THE OXFORD COMMA IS THE COMMA YOU PLACE RIGHT BEFORE THE COORDINATING CONJUNCTION AND LAST ITEM IN THE LIST. IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS A SERIAL COMMA, A SERIES COMMA, OR A HARVARD COMMA. THE OXFORD COMMA IS CONSIDERED OPTIONAL BY ENGLIS
@StPierreGroupe@TheRock @StPierreUS @Teremana In the US, "smelt" is a fish and "smelled" is a verb past tense. I would think Mr. Johnson would have an opinion on this one.
@MOO Hey, MOO, I love your products in general, but am totally NOT a proponent of you selling literal paper masks in an actual viral pandemic if you actually care about people's health. Also, you have a typo.
There's a poison working its way through our society. It's called the plural apostrophe. Please inoculate yourself against this disease. A PLURAL DOES NOT REQUIRE AN APOSTROPHE. I hope it won't come to this, but I may need to form a band of roving apostrophe hunters. Pray for us.
Proof reading my fellowship LORs today ! Using this amazing resource ⬇️ to catch any unintentional biases in my writing. Highly recommend it ❗️Also proud of the accomplishments of my diverse mentee pool ❤️ Such a privilege to recommend them all🙏🏽 😍#oncmeded
@Dangchick1 “Americans” is correct in this quote usage.
American: singular noun (one person)
Americans: plural noun (multiple people)
American’s: singular possessive (one person has a thing)
Americans’: plural possessive (multiple people have the same thing)
The first rule of Thesaurus Club is: don't talk, speak, communicate, chat, babble, soliloquize, spill the beans about, mention, discuss, broach or reveal Thesaurus Club.
Hello, people.
On Wednesday we will have a new YEAR.
Not years.
Not year's.
ONE. YEAR.
New Year's Eve (the new year owns the eve)
If you are having many new years, congrats to you, and good luck with that.
I am a proud @UHAlumni but...auwe! Someone REALLY needs to fix this "This Page Is Currenlty Unagailable. We Appologize For The Inconvientce" web copy right away. https://t.co/p8GGR8CVDm
A master class in grammar for New York City teachers led to revelations of just how little their students know about the basics of punctuation and syntax https://t.co/ruTcNYYkrd