On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
>
> Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
> American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
> comma before the and in a list of items).
Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language:
while you can do this in both British and American English for a list
(it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns
separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here.
Arnd
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
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