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The Oxford Comma

Teaching staff English
I still can spot a zeugma from 1,000 yards. I didn’t get where I am today without knowing the vocative. All thanks to my English teacher, Mr Merrylees. He was big on clause analysis.

Well, do you? Do even you know what an Oxford Comma is? Come on, hands up! And do you even care about grammar? Well, you should. 

Albert Gifford, a 15-year-old school boy from Shepton Mallet, certainly does. Bad grammar makes him ill. It ruined his breakfast. Albert was about to pour himself some Tesco Pure Smooth Orange Juice when he observed on the carton that it was made from the “most tastiest oranges”. Quelle horreur! The poor boy nearly fainted. The “grammatical error affected me greatly,” said he, nearly pouring said juice on to his Weetabix. He wrote to a fierce letter to the dread Tesco, who didn’t reply.

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