Todd Wynward discusses the importance of punctuation. Commas, apostrophes, and capitalization all change the meaning of sentences. His first example is he "eats shoots and leaves" versus, he "eats, shoots and leaves". The first means that the bear will consume bamboo leaves and shoots, while the second means that the bear will eat something, then shoot a gun and leave. There was recently a court case that ruled in favor of laborers due to the lack of an Oxford comma, leaving their duties too general, thus they deserved overtime for certain tasks. Had the Oxford comma been present, the courts would have sided with the corporation and the workers would not have been granted the extra pay for their labor.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/health/oxford-comma-maine-court-case-trnd/
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