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Daniel Acuña Costas S.203

Oxford Comma Worksheet A. Reading comprehension

1. Explain what the Oxford comma is and provide an example. Do most major Englishlanguage newspaper use the Oxford comma? Is the Oxford comma used in the other languages you know? The Oxford comma, also known as Harvard comma or the serial comma is a comma place immediately before the coordinating conjunction in a series of three or more items. An example of the use of the Oxford comma could be the following: Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Oakland. The majority of English-language newspapers do not use Oxford comma, they only make use of it when leaving it out could cause confusion. From my knowledge, Oxford is not used in any of the languages I speak, this means it is not used in Galician language, Spanish, German or Catalan.

2. Explain in a detailed way the source of the conflict between the truck drivers and their employer. How did each party interpret the law? Which party won the appeal? The source of the conflict is on the Maine state law, which was poorly written and led into misunderstanding. By this law, the processing and other steps of the manufacturing are not adjunct to overtime pay but depending on how it is interpreted its distribution was not included on the list, this means that the truck drivers should have been paid by the employer who considered distribution part of the not overtime paid list. The truck drivers won the appeal, with the employer, Oakhurst Dairy owing them ten million dollars.

3. According to the truck-drivers why is it relevant that the word ‘distribution’ in the law is a noun and not a gerund? In this case, the word distribution according to the truck drivers is a noun because otherwise, it would not be modifying the packing of the products.

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4. What is Strunk & White? Can you guess from the context? Strunk & White are the authors of The Elements of Style, a famous American English writing style guide. I wouldn’t have guessed the meaning of the sentence if I hadn’t looked for information online, after knowing what it was I could understand the reference.

5. Have you heard of transgender pronouns? What are they? Yes, I have heard about them, but mostly in a Spanish-speaking context since it is my first language and because in this language in contrast with English, nouns have genders which can lead to trouble in some cases. Pronouns are used in everyday speech and they often imply gender within themselves, but these associations are not always accurate and mistaking or assuming people’s pronouns could be offensive for certain groups of people.

6. Do you know what the last sentence of the article (‘Got milk?’) is referring to? I initially didn’t know the meaning of this expression, but after consulting the famous Urban Dictionary website I found out that it was an advertising campaign encouraging the consumption of milk during the 1990s.

C. Vocabulary

Paraphrase the following expressions from the text: 1. for want of (paragraph 1): for the lack of something. 2. lip-smacking (paragraph 2): normally used to describe something as delicious, but in this case it makes reference to the richness of the punctuation of The New Yorker newspaper. 3. entitled (paragraph 3): do not qualify to. 4. flout (paragraph 5): to intentionally avoid the law. 5. lest (paragraph 6): in case. 6. adamant (paragraph 7): 7. wholesome (paragraph 8): pure, edifyng. 8. backlash (paragraph 8): rejection, generalized negative reaction...