Cumulative Adjectives

What is the difference between coordinate and cumulative adjectives?

• Coordinate adjectives have to go in a specific order to make sense, but cumulative adjectives can be used in any order.

• Coordinate adjectives are separated by and, and cumulative adjectives are separated by a comma.

• Cumulative adjectives have to go in a specific order to make sense, but coordinate adjectives can be used in any order.

• Cumulative adjectives are separated by and, and coordinate adjectives are separated by a comma.

Are the blue adjectives cumulative or coordinate?
Autumn saved her money to buy a pair of expensive yellow shoes.

• Cumulative

• Coordinate

Are the blue adjectives cumulative or coordinate?
I covered my ears when the loud dance music suddenly blared from the radio.

• Cumulative

• Coordinate

Are the blue adjectives cumulative or coordinate?
Hilda's thick German accent made her difficult to understand sometimes.

• Cumulative

• Coordinate

Which of the following is true about cumulative adjectives?

• they are adjectives with equal importance

• they must be separated with a comma

• they should NOT be separated with a comma

Select the sentence that uses commas correctly.

• Kim always wears yellow, rubber, gloves when she washes the dishes.

• Kim always wears yellow, rubber gloves when she washes the dishes.

• Kim always wears yellow rubber gloves when she washes the dishes.

Do you see coordinate or cumulative adjectives in this sentence: Turn left at the red brick building on the corner.

• coordinate

• cumulative

You need to wash your ____________ T-shirt!

• dirty cotton white

• white dirty cotton

• dirty white cotton

• white cotton dirty

When I was in Florida, I saw a _______ lizard.

• tiny green

• green tiny

Are the blue adjectives cumulative or coordinate?
The archaeologists found many ancient Sumerian artifacts in the ruins of the city.

• Cumulative

• Coordinate