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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by punctuation great for

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separating words and ideas not so great for separating angry boxers though so if [Men boxing in a ring]

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you hire a comma as a ref someone's probably going to get hurt....Which of

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following is not punctuated correctly and here are your potential answers...

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well here's a quick hint free of charge like Girl Scout cookies when it comes to [Girl eating cookies]

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commas, it's possible to have too much of a good thing if we have a noun that's

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being described by a bunch of adjectives those adjectives are usually separated

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by commas but we don't need a comma between the last adjective and a noun an

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excessive use of commas won't give you a bellyache but it will give you an [Girl eating cookies and has belly ache]

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ungrammatical sentence and that's way worse...

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Let's check our options for an overabundance of commas starting with D

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this sentence has one comma stuck right there between the adjectives [Person gives thumbs up for answer D]

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and frankly that's all it needs...

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what about C another sentence with just one comma between

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adjectives and this sentence also happens to be error free however we're a bit

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suspicious about how entertaining the presentation was we think Michael [Michael giving presentation with bar graph]

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might just be really into bar graphs...... how about B this sentence doesn't

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have any commas but it does have two adjectives so have we found our answer

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you wish.... if Kyle's dad got a new car and we're describing it as new and red and [Kyle's dad with Ferrari car]

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it would make sense to have a comma in there since both adjectives are

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describing the car because it's certainly not Kyle's dad who's new and

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red but if Kyle's dad has lots of red cars and this is just the newest one, a

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comma free sentence might be the way to go it might not need commas but Kyle

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probably needs his dad's permission to go riding in his car especially if he [Kyle asks Dad to ride his car]

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wants to pick up one of those ice cream cones that are murder on the

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upholstery all right what about A? This sentence has two commas the first one's

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doing a great job separating adjectives that both describes a sweater that

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second comma though is up to no good as we know there's no need to separate the

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adjective blue from the noun sweater so at long last we have our answer A...maybe

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next time John brings out his old blue sweater he'll check for commas first [John holding blue sweater and checks for commas]

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those things like to live in pockets...

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