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I didn't... you mean the overuse of commas?

• gt_ 9y ago
  That's the main thing, I think.
• marak830 9y ago
  That depends on how you were taught, if you were taught using the Oxford style, than it really becomes more natural to write, as if you speak. An example being, each time you would make a slight pause in your sentence, than a comma is required, otherwise you would keep writing until a sentence has ended with a period, or as I was originally taught, a full colon.
  • Retra 9y ago
    What is "Oxford style?" Do you have a reference? If you're talking about the 'Oxford comma', then that is definitely not a style advocating for gratuitous comma usage in general, only an extra one on the final item of a list. Outside of lists, commas are used to separate clauses. They are never used so separate subjects and verbs, as that is always awkward and superfluous. It has nothing to do with pauses, and much more to do with coordinating intonation patterns.