White River Junction, VT weather and traffic updates by locals. Write your own weather report, forecast, or traffic update: Please note by clicking on Post you acknowledge that you have read the Terms of Service and the report and/or forecast you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be respectful.
Using a comma between all the items in a series, including the last two, avoids this problem. This last commathe one between the word and and the preceding wordis often called the serial comma or the Oxford comma. In newspaper writing, incidentally, you will seldom find a serial comma, but that is not necessarily a sign that it should be omitted in academic prose.
There are many situations in which commas are used, but the most common situations are listed below. If you remember all of the rules below, you should be able to use commas correctly most of the time. (I have used some English teacher jargon on this page, terms such as restrictive clauses..