A few days ago
Anonymous

comma help?

so if you are saying

“wrapped your fingers around the smooth cylindrical steering wheel”

do you put a comma after smooth AND after cylindrical

OR just a comma after smooth

its an essay for english so please help!

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A few days ago
Anonymous

Favorite Answer

Only after smooth!
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A few days ago
hi123456789
Since it is listing you put a comma only after smooth. Usually there isn’t suppose to be a comma becuase it is only 2 things describe the object. It usually has to be three but you still can. Instead try writing the sentence as “wrapping your fingers around the smooth and cylindrical steering wheel.” put an and there will be no use for a comma. Good luck!
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A few days ago
CW
The rule to this is, if the words are interchangeable, then yes, you use a comma.

For example, you could say “wrapped your fingers around the cylindrical, smooth steering wheel.” You can’t change the order of steering wheel, but you can change the order of cylindrical and smooth (which I did), so they need a comma between them.

So there you go. I hope this will help you in the future; you can email me with specific grammatical questions as well if you need to.

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A few days ago
rowlfe
Smooth and cylindrical are adjectives, which do not need comma separation. Comma separation is for things like lists of items which needs pause points. A comma is a place in a sentence where, if spoken, would be a pause point. Example: My grocery list has 4 items; canned fruit and vegetables, fresh produce, milk and coffee. Read out loud and see for your self, with and without pauses at the commas. A comma replicates on paper for the written word what a short pause does for the spoken word.
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A few days ago
firefysh
A comma needs to be put after the word “smooth”, with none being necessary after the word “cylindrical”.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
these are all descriptions you would say; wrapped your fingers around the smooth steering wheel. the cylindrical part can be left out and it would still sound OK.
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A few days ago
baeb47
“wrapped your fingers around the smooth, cylindrical steering wheel”
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A few days ago
jollym
I think its a comma only after smooth
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A few days ago
confused by court order
Just after smooth
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A few days ago
Anonymous
just look in the dictionary

com·ma

NOUN:

1: Grammar A punctuation mark ( , ) used to indicate a separation of ideas or of elements within the structure of a sentence.

2: A pause or separation; a caesura.

3: Any of several butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having wings with brownish coloring and irregularly notched edges

after smooth

you pointed it out in your following sentence

BY using the word AND (the pause)

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