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Or: Different Terms, Same Structure First come the grammar terms! Reading about The Chicago Manual of Style’s rules makes more sense if you know what a bunch of grammar terms mean. We tackle [...]

Like most things to do with commas, kinda. Do you want to read this series in order? Start here. As we learned in our previous entry, knowing what to do with commas means knowing the meaning of [...]

Or: Enter the grammar terms Having dispensed with the easy stuff (Comma series #1) and everyone’s favorite series comma (Comma series #2) the Chicago Manual of Style is starting to really throw [...]

Recently, I sent an email to client where I delicately probed his feelings about the serial comma. He’d written a 15,000-word workbook where he didn’t use the serial comma 95% of the time. But [...]