When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...

Hi everyone! After my brief vacation — or as the Brits like to say, ‘holiday’ — the Oxford Comma is back! Another weird fact about Pembroke: No one is allowed to walk on the quads. Isn’t that crazy?

[No comma; and encouraging his band members' individuality is not a sentence.] Note: AAJ does not use serial ("Oxford") commas before the last and or or in a list (as shown in this section's title).

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 ...