Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:25:04 +0100 |
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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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