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Answer Key
Separating Coordinate Adjective
Directions: Read the sentences below. For each, determine if a comma is necessary to separate the
adjectives. Add commas where appropriate.
1. Greg owns several blue wool sweaters.
2. We must travel over several winding, treacherous roads on the way home.
3. For breakfast we ate two oversized chocolate-chip pancakes.
4. The Girl Scouts sold dozens of mouth-watering peanut-butter cookies last weekend.
5. The book cover has twin brown-haired, blue-eyed boys staring at the moon.
6. My grandmother was a kind, loving woman.
7. Three large pine squirrels skittered up the tree.
8. They didn’t want to, but the tired, hungry boys cleaned their rooms before dinner.
9. The playful, dirt-covered puppies chased after the birds in the park.
10. There were several large blue towels hanging over the fence at the public swimming pool.
Directions: Write one sentence with coordinating adjectives, and one sentence without coordinating
adjectives.
With coordinating adjectives:
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Without coordinating adjectives:
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