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I love the coordinating conjunctions mnemonic FANBOYS. I probably knew this once, but when I scanned the hard drive of my mind, going back fifty-five years, all I found was FANB . . .

I love the exhortation: “Be strong; resist the temptation to put a comma before and” when it’s not a compound sentence.

Troy Thompson

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As a general rule, I'm a little comma happy. This is helpful! (Also, now I'm overanalyzing every single comma placement in this long, pointless, but hopefully humorous, sentence). Tell me if I got any wrong!

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I had a very humble education and apparently, as it would seem, I bypassed grammar altogether. Anyhow, I'm taking these lessons on commas very seriously. Thank you for plainly demystifying the comma almighty.

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I'm always up for a good comma discussion. Lovely!

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I think what this means is that I am only going to write in French from now on. See you in 2 weeks.

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I think about the lack of an Oxford comma in the title of LWW all the time 😭

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