Please add the proper punctuation to this sentence?
My attempts do not look right to me. Please do not guess, I can do that. I need confident responses.
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Comma follows introductory clause.
Commas enclose the appositive phrase after “treasure.”
Separate the series of adjectives with commas.
“Military-looking” is a compound adjective that must be hyphenate.
This is a horrible sentence, BTW.
“Once they got close, it took a while to spot the treasure: heavy, metal, military-looking boxes, half buried in deadwood.”
OR
“Once they got close, it took a while to spot the treasure: another heavy, metal, military-looking box, half buried in deadwood.”
Why did some of you miss the lack of number agreement between “another” and “boxes”?
That’s about as grammatically accurate as that sentence can get.
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