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  2. What Is the Oxford Comma, Exactly? Plus, Here's Why It's So ...

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    The difference between an Oxford comma and a regular comma is that an Oxford comma refers to the final comma in a series that would come before the last conjunction of a sentence.

  3. Extended Backus–Naur form - Wikipedia

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    The vertical bar represents an alternative and the terminal symbols are enclosed with quotation marks followed by a semicolon as terminating character. Hence a digit is a 0 or a digit excluding zero that can be 1 or 2 or 3 and so forth until 9. A production rule can also include a sequence of terminals or nonterminals, each separated by a comma:

  4. Serial comma - Wikipedia

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    "Avoid the so-called Oxford comma; say 'he ate bread, butter and jam' rather than 'he ate bread, butter, and jam'." The Economist Style Guide [49] "Do not put a comma before and at the end of a sequence of items unless one of the items includes another and. Thus 'The doctor suggested an aspirin, half a grapefruit and a cup of broth.

  5. Reading frame - Wikipedia

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    An open reading frame (ORF) is a reading frame that has the potential to be transcribed into RNA and translated into protein. It requires a continuous sequence of DNA which may include a start codon, through a subsequent region which has a length that is a multiple of 3 nucleotides, to a stop codon in the same reading frame.

  6. Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/5 - Wikipedia

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    Please do so irrespective of any rules associated with the variety of English in use. The serial comma (for example the comma before and in "ham, chips, and eggs") is optional; be sensitive to possible ambiguity arising from thoughtless use or thoughtless avoidance, and be consistent within a given article. Avoid comma splices.

  7. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The question comma has a comma instead of the dot at the bottom of a question mark, while the exclamation comma has a comma in place of the point at the bottom of an exclamation mark. These were intended for use as question and exclamation marks within a sentence, a function for which normal question and exclamation marks can also be used, but ...

  8. Semicolon - Wikipedia

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    In a list or sequence, if even one item needs its own internal comma, use of the semicolon as the separator throughout that list is justified, as shown by this example from the California Penal Code: A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed, upon ...

  9. Wikipedia : Guidance on applying the Manual of Style

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    An article on that person may not be closely related to one part of the English-speaking world. Other examples of where an article is closely related to one part of the English-speaking world include: American Civil War, a solely American event (USA) The Lord of the Rings, a book by a British writer (UK) Uluru, an Australian landmark (Australia)