THE ENUMERATION OF
ADJECTIVES
What is an enumeration of Adjectives?
Using more than one adjective consecutively
is known as enumeration of adjectives.
Here are some examples of enumeration of adjectives:
a small feminine hand
thick, acrid, poisonous smoke
When to use commas between Adjectives:
Writers are sometimes unsure when to use commas with multiple
adjectives. The rules about using commas (and conjunctions, usually the
word and) in a list of adjectives are very relaxed:
1: For TWO adjectives:
1: For TWO adjectives:
vast, inhospitable moor (with a comma)
vast and inhospitable moor (with and)
vast inhospitable moor (with nothing)
2: For THREE or more adjectives:
vast, inhospitable, windy moor (commas between)
vast, inhospitable and windy moor (comma(s) between and
then and)
vast inhospitable windy moor (nothing between)
vast inhospitable and windy moor (nothing and then and)
For related information about the adjectives:
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