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Old Wed Jan 17, 2007, 07:51pm
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Originally Posted by greymule
A couple of years ago, ETS had to revise some PSAT scores because it had erroneously included the following sentence as a grammatically correct example:

Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise from and express the injustices African Americans have endured.

(Anyone know why this sentence is NOT grammatically correct? Only one person contested the question, but that person had a valid point.)
Yes, unless you are listing things, such as apples and oranges, a comma is to be placed prior to conjunctions such as, but not limited to, "and," and "but." So there should be a comma placed between "from" and "and." Notice that no comma was required between "from" and "and" in my sentence.
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