Just consider the damage that could be done if Ina Garten had left out the comma from this ingredient listing for flour in her recipe for chocolate pecan scones: "3 tablespoons plus 4 cups all ...

An Oxford, or serial, comma is the last comma in a list; it goes before the word "and." Technically, it's grammatically optional in American English. However, depending on the list you are writing ...

More and more writers and publishers are joining newspaper editors in the belief that the second-last item in a series needs ...

An error known as a comma splice (or comma fault) results when a comma is mistakenly placed between two independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating ...

Recipe writing is an art. You might not even think of it as writing, but it requires absolute precision, not only in word choice but also in punctuation. Overlooking punctuation is one of several ...