Serial comma toast. Adding a serial comma removes this ambiguity. Writers who normally avoid the serial comma often use one in these circumstances, although sometimes re-ordering the elements of such a list can help as well. In some circumstances using the serial comma can create ambiguity. If the book dedication above is changed to the serial comma after "Ayn Rand" creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities (1, my mother; 2, Ayn Rand; and 3, God) or of only two
A... My Name Is Alice directed by Silver and Boyd: The format is that of a musical revue of 20 or so songs and sketches performed by a five-member cast of women of different ages and types in a 'wide variety of situations and relationships with insight, empathy and self-deprecating humour.’ The women have names in some of the sketches and songs, in others they are simply named "first actress", etc. Each of the cast members introduces herself by reciting an adult update on the children's ABC rhyme. One example: ""A ... my name is Alice, And my husband's name is Adam, And his girlfriend's