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Language and Writer’s Craft: Punctuating Coordinate Adjectives
Coordinate adjectives are two or more words that equally modify the same object. Use commas to separate coordinate adjectives in a sentence.
Example: The pulsing, bass-heavy beat of the music flowed from the speakers. In this sentence, pulsing and bass-heavy are coordinate adjectives. You can
identify coordinate adjectives with a simple test. Try to:
• reverse the order of the adjectives, and
• put and between the adjectives.
If you can do both of these things, the adjectives are coordinate and require a comma. Adjectives that give information about size, shape, age, color, material, religion, or nationality are not coordinate adjectives and need not be separated with commas.
Which of the sentences below have coordinate adjectives? Add commas where necessary.
a. Our internship program accepts only ambitious dedicated students.
b. My little French music box now lay smashed on the floor.
c. The rolling pitching tossing motion of the ship quickly made Elsie seasick.
d. New York City’s bustling teeming sidewalks and streets were unlike any in the small town Gary had come from.
e. Grandma knitted the baby a blue wool sweater for her birthday.
7. Review your narrative draft and use looping to add sensory details and figurative language. Look for opportunities to replace nondescript words with more precise diction. Then check that you have properly added commas to coordinate adjectives.
Check Your Understanding
Describe how you have changed the middle of your draft. Reflect on your use of looping to improve your draft.
INdepeNdeNT
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Read and Recommend
Reread the notes you have been taking in your Reader/ Writer Notebook about
your independent reading. Then choose one of the books to recommend to your classmates. Write a one-paragraph review of
the book that explains why you like it. Be specific. For example, you might focus on character development, the author’s use of language, or the book’s vivid descriptions of time or place.
My Notes
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