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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Why one would place a comma here?

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01i00I am having some trouble with this "placing comma for multiple adjective" thing, do you have a previous post or an internet source that I can refer to? Some good diagrams to help digest the content would be delightfully welcomed.02i0-
  

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0 You use the commas if the adjectives work independently from one another, and not if the adjectives work together. 02br
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00A test you can use is the reverse the order of the adjectives, and if the sentance still retains its meaning, then it works. 02br
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00Since shiny and red works independently (the car doesn't have to be red to be shiny) than th
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0 I actually believe that, in the example BubbaStrangelove gave, it ought to be "A bright-red sports car" as "bright" is an adjective describing another adjective, "red." However, that is rather finicky, and arguably negligible. Nonetheless, adjectives should be separated by commas when they are all independently defining a noun, such as "A large, red car." In addition, I'm fairly sure that one
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0In literary texts, you often find a string of independent adjectives with no intervening commas. 02br
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