As the President of the Texas Chapter of the Kirsten Reneau Fan Club, I could not be more thrilled about this news! @ReneauGlow ily and ur big olโ brain thatโs filled with books!!
Nonfiction writers, your writing should not be a dutiful timeline, but rather a seismograph. Your work should respond to rumbling beneath the surface, locate and characterize tension and friction, and seek to study and record the storyโs internal structure.
Itโs a really good thing I was so busy at work today that I could barely even think bc I didnโt start crying at 11am when my year-late graduation was happening. So at least there is that.
@plaidculture In the first example, the Oxford, or serial, comma separates all 3 items in the series so you know thereโs 3 separate nouns.
But in the second, the last 2 items in the series are acting as a modifier for the first. And it SEEMS nitpicky, but it make be an important distinction.
Iโm just gonna say it: The reason the Oxford comma matters is because without it the last 2 items in your list are functioning as an appositive phrase.