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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Comma?

Hi, do I need to put a comma between soaking and wet?

She took off her soaking wet clothes.

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Anonymous do I need to put a comma between soaking and wet? She took off her soaking wet clothes. No, you don't need a comma.

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  • Anonymous do I need to put a comma between soaking and wet?
  • She took off her soaking wet clothes.
  • No, you don't need a comma.
  • "Soaking wet" is a fixed expression, in this case.
  • ) You could use a comma to stress the two individual adjectives, "not using" the fixed expression.
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Anonymousdo I need to put a comma between soaking and wet?

She took off her soaking wet clothes.
No, you don't need a comma.

"Soaking wet" is a fixed expression, in this case. (Some might call it a compound adjective.)

You could use a comma to stress the two individual adjectives, "not using" the fixed expression.
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