Adjectives and commas | Adjectives | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hey grammarians hey Paige hi David hey
so Paige I went to the grocery store
yesterday mm-hmm and I got this Apple
okay I put in the fridge uh and this
morning when I open the fridge the Apple
was all like gross and sticky and mushy
and I really want to write a letter to
the grocery store and say hey you sold
me a gross Apple yeah uh but I'm stuck
okay um I don't I feel like I ought to
put a comma in here so if I if I'm so
here's the sentence I've got so far
you sold me a mushy sticky Apple gross
gross unacceptable totally so I would
like my dollar 38 back but in another
draft of the letter I wrote you sold me
a mushy green apple okay so mushy sticky
or mushy green yeah and I feel like and
I don't know how to put this into words
yet but we're gonna put it into words
cuz that's our job whether or not there
should be a comma in between mushy and
green or mushy and sticky yeah cuz these
feel different to me right right yeah so
there's actually a couple tests that you
can do on these sentences to see if you
need a comma between the adjectives or
not so Paige what distinguishes a pear
like mushy and sticky from machine green
there's this sort of hierarchy or like
order that you put adjectives in when
you have multiple of them in a sentence
and it is called dosa scomp dosa scomp
altogether now Dee determiner Oh opinion
s size a age s again shape C color o
origin M material and P purpose
oh okay so mushy and sticky are both
opinion adjectives yeah so these are
kind of in the same class whereas mushy
and green that's that's an opinion and a
color yeah there are two different
classes right so dosa scomp
helps determine adjectives order right
so it's the order in which you would use
if which you were stacking these
adjectives you would use them in this
dosa scomp
order right so like in the second
sentence mushy is an opinion like you
said and green is a color and in dosa
scomp opinion comes before color so
that's the order that you write them in
so like in the first sentence when we
have mushy and sticky which are both
opinion adjectives these are called
coordinate adjectives they're in the
same category of dosa scomp and if you
wanted to you could reverse the order
you could say sticky mushy apples let's
try that yeah looks good to me
sticky mushy mushy sticky same thing um
okay so so if we're trying to determine
whether or not we have coordinate
adjectives I guess the first thing we
would do is consult dosa scomp right so
that's step one and what is it dosa page
oh it's like a pancake right yeah it's
like a South Indian pancake that's
pretty cool and to scomp is a word we
made up that means to eat
sure eat some pancakes scum bottom so
that's step one step two try the
reversal method right and that's like
changing it from mushy sticky too sticky
mushy and step three is stick and hand
in there mm-hmm
if you can reverse the order of the
adjectives and you can put and in
between the two of them then they're
coordinate adjectives and if they're
coordinate adjectives you need to
separate them with a comma exactly and
that's why in the case of the second
sentence with mushy green apple you
don't put a comma between them they're
in different categories in dosa scomp
and so they must stay in that order and
there's no need for a comma thanks page
I'm gonna get back to drafting my angry
letter you can learn anything give it
out page out