I am writing a list of features, and am stuck on how to correctly handle the comma usage.
There are, essentially, "groups" within the list that are throwing me off.
I'm going to be a bit long-winded with my examples and explanation because I don't really know how to explain this problem concisely, but if you want to skip to the problem, it's the last example near the bottom!
Let's consider this test case... the items in the list are:
- Banana sales
- Orange sales
- Watermelon sales
In this case I might write something like "We offer banana sales, orange sales, and watermelon sales"
Now let's consider this list:
- Banana sales
- Banana insurance
In this case, because the items are somewhat grouped by both relating to bananas, I would write it like "We offer banana sales, and insurance"
Now to get to my problem, I want to essentially combine those two ideas for this list:
- Banana sales
- Banana insurance
- Orange sales
- Watermelon sales
So my first thought was to write something like "We offer banana sales, and insurance, orange sales, and watermelon sales" or "We offer banana sales and insurance, orange sales, and watermelon sales"
But that does not seem like it would be correct. What's the solution?