Today I discovered a thing called the "Oxford comma", never heard of it before. If I'd used that at school I'd expect the teacher to have crossed it out and put the remark "see me after class big boy" using red ink. I now realise that in that situation, I could have written "it's the Oxford comma, **** off" in green ink and handed it back to him/her. What grama have you learned lately?
Is that like any other bookshop but with some hurling rackets and a picture of Roy Keane hung on the wall?
Yes, "and"/"or", but I was taught that was wrong. I'd like to get this **** nailed so no **** picks me up on it ever again.
Do/did you know the anarchist bookshop very near St Pancras, Housemans? Probably 20+ years since I went there. It was regular best-sellers bookshop at the front, den of anarchist and other revolutionary literature at the rear.
Something along these lines... I love my parents, Michael Jackson and Maggie Thatcher. I love my parents, Michael Jackson and, Maggie Thatcher. The first sentence could be misconstrued that Maggie and Jacko are my parents.
Yes, I used to go in it fairly regularly. There was another Irish bookshop, the 4 Provinces, along the Grays Inn Road and the guy who ran that was forever going up there for left wing stuff.
The Yanks use commas after "but" & "and" all the time; it does my head in. Using a comma beforehand is perfectly acceptable. In fact in some cases, it's preferable. For example: I went to Tesco to buy bread and eggs, and I went to Asda to buy milk and honey. Remove the comma and it looks wrong, m'afraid.
One should use comma's exactly in the manner they were designed for, slight pauses, and not the end of a sentance, for which we have full stop's.............. I rest my case.
