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Tutors. University of Houston-Victoria 3007 N. Ben Wilson
Victoria, TX 77901 |Punctuating Adjective Series by Sophia
Stevens Adjectives and adjective series (two or more adjectives)
are often used to make our sentences more descriptive, but
sometimes it can be difficult to know when to punctuate
adjective series. When two or more adjectives come before a
noun, it is important to remember when a comma should be
included or omitted. First, let’s look at the elements of a noun
phrase. A noun phrase can include a number of words. The most
common combination is (Determiner) + (Adjective) + Headword.
Determiners can be articles or possessive nouns or pronouns: a,
an, the, John's, my, your, his, her, its Adjectives come before
the nouns they modify: tight-lipped, hilarious, red, stretchy
Headwords are simply the primary noun or nouns (people, places,
or objects) of the phrase: boat, cloud, child, paper, musician
Now that we know the elements of a noun phra