A sentence reads, “Robert Mary Jane Andrea Lee Ann and I should be arriving.” Not knowing how the different names are actually connected, how many commas must you add to the sentence to show that there will be five people arriving?
1 Answer
Oct 9, 2016
Using the Oxford comma principle, four.
Explanation:
Since it is not known how the names are actually connected, this is only to illustrate:
"Robert, Mary Jane, Andrea, Lee Ann, and I should be arriving."
For those who do not hold to the Oxford comma principle, three commas would suffice.
