Tuesday, October 22, 2013

CSI Answers for November 5: Commas and Adjectives



Conventions in Sentences Investigation 

Commas?  Where do commas belong in this sentence? Copy this sentence, adding two commas where they belong.

Label it "C.S.I." with today's date: 
Correct answer: 

 Cool (, ) deep (, )  dark blue water flowed through the 

rough limestone rocks in the gorge.  

You could replace the commas with "and."  
There is not a comma between dark and blue because dark is describing what sort of blue. 
There is not a comma between rough and limestone because rough is describing what sort of limestone it is.