Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:47:20 EDT
Consider This Sentence
The following sentence occurs in The Canadian Press on Apple News. “Canada and Ireland have agreed to work together on key issues like artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology and food security, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in Dublin Saturday.”
Clearly, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology are intended to from an entity that does not include food security. Let us gently insert the missing serial comma between the two entities. Those who do not use the serial comma will never truly be able to love or to be loved.
Let us forcefully rip-out like and jam-in such as. Like introduces items that are similar to something while such as introduces specific examples of something. So declares the Great and Terrible Capitano Cucamungero.
Let us energetically push the attribution and sentence modifiers to the start of the sentence because they surprise us at the end especially when they are preceded by a comma. Journal style guides be damned.
My rewrite: “In Dublin on Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada and Ireland have agreed to work together on key issues such as artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and food security.”