Comma Rules: Coordinate Adjectives with Commas
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| Cumulative Adjectives just pile up. It would sound strange to put "and" between them or to reverse them. They do not need commas between them. |
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| Coordinate Adjectives are Equal. You could use "and" between them. You could reverse them. Place commas between them. |
Adjectives: Equal (Coordinate) or Not?
Coordinate Adjectives and The Royal Order of Adjectives
For part of the practice test on coordinate adjectives/commas, the students looked in their own books for sentences that used cumulative or coordinate adjectives. I found some in a book I'm reading:
Cumulative:
She went around to the back of the massive beige-colored brick building.
from Byrd and Igloo: A Polar Adventure page 6
Coordinate:
In 1902, when Byrd was a skinny, freckle-nosed fourteen-year-old living in Winchester, Virginia, . . .
from Byrd and Igloo: A Polar Adventure page 9
