Oxford Comma
Shmoop's favorite dogs are pugs, bulldogs, and basset hounds.See that comma after bulldogs? That's called the Oxford comma, and it's one of the most passionately debated pieces of punctuation. Don'...
Comma Splices
We're sure you know that joining two independent clauses together with a comma is a run-on sentence. (And if you didn't, now you do.) But did you know that it has a special name? It's called a comm...