Grade 7 · Reading & language
Separate coordinate adjectives
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Both adjectives independently describe the dog. Which punctuation is correct?
- a gentle, playful dog
- a gentle, playful, dog
- a gentle playful, dog
- a, gentle playful dog
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a gentle, playful dog
The coordinate adjectives gentle and playful take a comma between them.
A little hint: If the adjectives can be joined naturally by and and reversed without changing the basic sense, they are usually coordinate.
If the adjectives can be joined naturally by and and reversed without changing the basic sense, they are usually coordinate.
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