Eris wrote:
On 11/17/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eris wrote:
On 11/17/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A judicial finding is a judgement of a question on veracity
that is not appealed within the time limit for doing so, or
that is sustained on appeal.
Spurious comma.
Disagree.
It is neither a serial comma nor a separator of independent clauses
(the second clause lacks a subject if taken independently).
The serial comma's role of disambiguation can be reasonably extended
to lists of two, provided that the items in the list are sufficiently
complex. Furthermore, as demonstrated multiple times in this reply,
there are several other situations in which the use of a comma is
appropriate (though those situations may perhaps be dismissed as
irrelevant to the case above).
