Commas and Coordinate 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?
Try as they might, the hunters could not catch the quick, clever fox.

• Cumulative

• Coordinate

Coordinate Adjectives are adjectives that...

• use commas.

• do not use commas.

How would you set up the commas in between the adjectives?

• wild, overgrown, unruly

• wild, overgrown unruly

• wild, overgrown, unruly,

• wild overgrown unruly

Are the two adjectives in this sentence Coordinate Adjectives (need commas) or Cumulative Adjectives (no commas)? The light gray cat slowly stalked the bird.

• Coordinate Adjectives

• Cumulative Adjectives

What are the TWO rules used to tell if there are Coordinate Adjectives in a sentence?

• Put "and" in between the two adjectives, AND switch the order of the adjectives.

• Put "or" in between the two adjectives, OR switch the order of the adjectives.

• Put "but" in between the two adjectives, OR switch the order of the adjectives.

• There are no rules.

Determine if the following sentence needs commas in between the adjectives:

Kelly lived in a luxurious Victorian home.

• luxurious, Victorian

• luxurious Victorian

Determine if the following sentence needs commas in between the adjectives:

Her mother lived on the old decrepit farm across the creek.

• old, decrepit

• old decrepit

Determine if the following sentence needs commas in between the adjectives:

The spoiled fat cats found the garden full of cool dark shadows.

• spoiled, fat

• The sentence is correct as it is.

• cool, dark

• spoiled, fat AND cool, dark

Determine if the following sentence needs commas in between the adjectives:

Jack has not seen many large toads this year.

• many, large

• many large