The comma before the "and" isn't needed in your sentence.
The new rules of language now require a comma before the and In a series:
Apples, oranges, and bananas are all fruits.
“Just look at the posts on this forum. Misspelled words, nonsensical sentences, and punctuation errors abound.
The comma before the “and” isn’t needed in your sentence...”
Disagree. The comma is there to separate each individual multiple item being listed. Without it, you are connecting “nonsensical sentences” and “punctuation errors” as one item in the list as opposed to two separate items.
Example-
“I like ice cream, candy, peanut butter, and jelly.”......vs. “I like ice cream, candy, and peanut butter and jelly.”
In the first sentence I am separating two commonly combined items into two separate thoughts while in the second I combining them into one common thought.
Wrong, the comma there is perfectly appropriate.
“The comma before the “and” isn’t needed in your sentence.”
Okay, help me out with that. I have always believed that a comma was used before a conjunction.
Writing should be more about the content, rather than aesthetics. I always found that cursive simply made it faster for me to get my thoughts on paper, so it was used.
Penmanship was much more important before the widespread use of typewriters and, more recently, word processors. If you couldn’t write legibly you couldn’t communicate in the past. Any letter I compose today, personal or professional, is done on the computer.
Spelling is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. In this day, when almost every misspelled word is pointed out to you it seems like laziness. The other one that bugs me is the misuse of words such as their, they’re, and there, and your and you’re. That’s just poor grammar. However, I refuse to be the grammar police. If I understand your thought, the rest is between you, and your keyboard.