So, I was getting ready to send an email to a client yesterday, when a red line (using Outlook) that lets you know when you have a typo/misspelling/grammar error, appeared under a word that was in a list of other words. For example - We would like to know if you’ll be joining us for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Using this example, the word “lunch” would have been red lined; when placing the cursor over it, Outlook’s “suggestion”was to add a comma after “lunch.”
That wasn’t the exact sentence but just using it as an example. This is a common error for me, because I’ve always been under the impression that a comma before “and” is typically only used if either sentence on the opposite side of “and,” could stand alone as “independent” of each other, without “and.” That’s not the case with my example above (breakfast, lunch, and dinner - that’s not a sentence; it’s technically a list)
https://www.scribbr.com/commas/comma-before-or-after-and/
What grammar errors do you often repeat?
Using this example, the word “lunch” would have been red lined; when placing the cursor over it, Outlook’s “suggestion”was to add a comma after “lunch.”
That wasn’t the exact sentence but just using it as an example. This is a common error for me, because I’ve always been under the impression that a comma before “and” is typically only used if either sentence on the opposite side of “and,” could stand alone as “independent” of each other, without “and.” That’s not the case with my example above (breakfast, lunch, and dinner - that’s not a sentence; it’s technically a list)
https://www.scribbr.com/commas/comma-before-or-after-and/
What grammar errors do you often repeat?
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