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Subject:Re: Comma, Comma, Comma (Should we or Shouldn' From:Marcy Baker Hartman <catguest -at- ISVPROG -dot- EBAY -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 May 1995 19:48:00 GMT
In article 0100000 -at- ios -dot- com, charles desaro <soacon -at- ios -dot- com> writes:
>:Which sentence is correct, relative to the comma:
>:The Tech Writer was bright, articulate, knowledgeable, and computer literate.
>: or
>:The Tech Writer was bright, articulate, knowledgeable and computer literate.
I must confess that I am what an old news editor referred to as
a *commakazi*. 8^}
I follow the rule used by the first example, unless instructed
otherwise by a client's style guide.
Marcy
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