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    #11
    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    To seperate 3 items you need 2 commas

    Now, no more freebies. The next English lesson is chargeable.
    Wrong.

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      #12
      Originally posted by JRCT View Post
      I used it to separate 3 items in my list of destinations. The gents, (the coffee shop) to get a coffee and my desk.

      Let's not mention semis and colons in the same conversation as the gents.
      The brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shop

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        #13
        Like "Tom, Dick, and Harry" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?

        The second comma is an Oxford comma, which is optional.

        Thanks for the lesson, though.
        Last edited by JRCT; 11 February 2015, 13:26.

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          #14
          Originally posted by Batcher View Post
          The brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shop
          Where "hot lunches" are possibly served!

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            #15
            Originally posted by Batcher View Post
            The brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shop
            That would mean moving the comma to say "the gents (the coffee shop),"

            I think it's just going to be easier to move the coffee shop into the gents.

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              #16
              We don't need mudskipper here to correct our grammar, do we?

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                #17
                Originally posted by JRCT View Post
                Like "Tom, Dick, and Harry" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?

                The second comma is an Oxford comma, which is optional.

                Thanks for the lesson, though.
                Quoting a list, out of context from the OP is your best defence?

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by JRCT View Post
                  I used it to separate 3 items in my list of destinations. The gents, (the coffee shop) to get a coffee and my desk.

                  Let's not mention semis and colons in the same conversation as the gents.
                  You'd be better off using square brackets to show that it was an omission from the original quotation.

                  As others have said, you could put a comma before the reference to your desk but it's optional.
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                    #19
                    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                    To seperate 3 items you need 2 commas
                    separate :

                    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                    We don't need mudskipper here to correct our grammar, do we?

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by JRCT View Post
                      That would mean moving the comma to say "the gents (the coffee shop),"

                      I think it's just going to be easier to move the coffee shop into the gents.
                      I thought it already had been?

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