As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I am not an english major which is one of the reasons I am here.
I am 50 years old and for many, many years I would not use a comma before the word "and". I believe I was taught this in school.
Consider the following statement as an example.
"I would like Alice, Tom, Dick and Harry to move to the back of the room."
However, I am finding it increasingly common for many writers to place a comma after the name Dick and before the word "and".
I suppose things could have changed over the years; have they changed or have I been in error all of these years?
Incidently, if you were to plug the sentence with or without the comma in Microsoft Word, no error is flagged.
Any comments?
