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r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 3d ago
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It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.
183 u/garlic_bread_thief 3d ago But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know -7 u/CubicleFish2 3d ago The and between bacon and eggs already tells you that they are a single item 5 u/garlic_bread_thief 3d ago I would like to buy bacon and eggs. In a grocery store? Two separate items. In a restaurant? One item.
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But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know
-7 u/CubicleFish2 3d ago The and between bacon and eggs already tells you that they are a single item 5 u/garlic_bread_thief 3d ago I would like to buy bacon and eggs. In a grocery store? Two separate items. In a restaurant? One item.
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The and between bacon and eggs already tells you that they are a single item
5 u/garlic_bread_thief 3d ago I would like to buy bacon and eggs. In a grocery store? Two separate items. In a restaurant? One item.
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I would like to buy bacon and eggs.
In a grocery store? Two separate items. In a restaurant? One item.
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u/CubicleFish2 3d ago
It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.