Rabelaisian
Senior Member
English - Canadian
I'm trying to get a handle on adjective commas, trying my darndest to make sure I'm not superfluous and awkward with them, and am really re-thinking past things that I've written. Take this for example:
She is lying on her very comfortable, cushy, white, leather couch.
If all it said was "She is lying on her white leather couch," I would put no comma at all. However, there are four adjectives in that list, not just two, so I figured, for purposes of pacing and, most importantly, the context of the scene and the ambiance I'm trying to achieve, that I'd emphasize each of the four describing words equally, so, as you can see, I put a comma between all of them. Is that okay, though? How would it look in your opinion with only a comma after comfortable (like so)?
She is lying on her very comfortable, cushy white leather couch.
Is that better, despite what the rest of the scene might be like? Is one more correct than the other?
Thanks for your help.
She is lying on her very comfortable, cushy, white, leather couch.
If all it said was "She is lying on her white leather couch," I would put no comma at all. However, there are four adjectives in that list, not just two, so I figured, for purposes of pacing and, most importantly, the context of the scene and the ambiance I'm trying to achieve, that I'd emphasize each of the four describing words equally, so, as you can see, I put a comma between all of them. Is that okay, though? How would it look in your opinion with only a comma after comfortable (like so)?
She is lying on her very comfortable, cushy white leather couch.
Is that better, despite what the rest of the scene might be like? Is one more correct than the other?
Thanks for your help.