Timeline for How to use commas and “and” in a list of three items where the first two items are followed by a parenthetical remark “(both…)”?
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| Sep 11, 2021 at 0:51 | comment | added | Kevin | Headlines are not standard English, they are headlinese, and follow entirely different rules of grammar. For example, they use the infinitive to express the future, the simple present to express the past, and they rarely bother with the copula at all. | |
| Sep 11, 2021 at 0:17 | comment | added | randomhead | It is, in fact, incorrect to write a two-item list that way (although newspaper editors do it all the time headlines). | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 23:30 | comment | added | user142975 | Although a list of two items is usually written as “A1 and A2” and sounds perfect this way, I do not think it is incorrect to write “A1, A2” (even though it sounds strange), isn't it? | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 23:21 | history | answered | randomhead | CC BY-SA 4.0 |