Comments on: Writing Addresses

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:44:03 +0000

True!

By: Misty

Misty — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:21:32 +0000

The Associated Press Stylebook dictates the lack of a comma before the conjunction in a series. Most newspapers and journalistic writers adhere to the AP principals/rules of writing.

By: Mitch Lopate

Mitch Lopate — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:00:05 +0000

This appears to have been answered in the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves by British author Lynne Truss.
As I recall, Lynne explained this as the “Oxford comma,” and I discuss this each semester in my college composition class. So it seems to have been a true “English” issue–and I would rather have the extra comma.

I use the example of the 60s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary–and I prefer to have the comma after Paul Stookey’s name. The reason for that, I explain, is that if Paul could not make a performance for some reason, would that exclude Mary too?

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:19:23 +0000

Ernestine, you don’t need a comma after “and.”

By: Ernestine Ancrum Winns

Ernestine Ancrum Winns — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:53:21 +0000

Thank you for sharing. When should a comma go after “and”?

By: dilnia

dilnia — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:13:51 +0000

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By: grace ceniza

grace ceniza — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:28:06 +0000

thanks for all the tips you are sending me. I hope you will continue sending me more of your ideas.

grace

By: freddie

freddie — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:30:37 +0000

Thank you for the new information of addres writting.

By: Nat Hooper

Nat Hooper — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:18:28 +0000

That’s a new one to me. THANK YOU!

Nat

By: Sandra Flatt

Sandra Flatt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:00:19 +0000

I could not find it in my booklet I have in my classroom from the Post Office either. I remember this from a business writing course I took in college.