ask about the usage of comma?

Question

I run into the same problem many times. The sentence is like this: a long dry bread...I saw this in Cambridge dictionary...But I wanna know if I have to add comma between long & dry. Pls explain to me in details. Thank you.

I mean, in the cambridge dictionary, there is no comma between long and dry.

Answer 1

Yes. You would use a comma to set off coordinate adjectives. For example: "It was a long, dry day.". You use a comma in the place of the word "and" when using adjectives. you can put an and or a but between the adjectives, a comma will probably belong there. However, do NOT put a comma for elements like "I ate a three tiered chocolate layer cake." Since all of the adjectives are essential to the meaning of the phrase, you would not separate them.

Answer 2

Technically yes, technically no. It all depends on the sentence that you are writing.

The cow, dog and mouse lived in the house. That is correct.
The cow, dog, and mouse lived in the house. That too is correct.

Different schools teach different things. One college professor insisted that commas be used to separate things and after the word "and" [as in the above sentence. The general rule of thumb is that a comma is use as a pause in a sentence so that could mean to divide things [cat, mouse, dog] or "They went to the store for groceries, it was the store outside of town."

I would say that the comma should be used in the sentence, "A long, dry bread" but that doesn’t really make much sense without the rest of the sentence. Did you type it right? If it is a definition of a word, that is different.

Glass: a clear smooth object [etc]. The comma isn't needed there because it is being used to describe a single thing in short order.

Answer 3

You have to put a comma between long and dry because these are two different adjectives. A comma would just separate the adj "long" from the adj "dry", thus, "a long, dry bread"; or you can also put the word "and" between them, thus, "a long and dry bread".

Answer 4

Depends...
Is "dry bread" a single description or is the description long and dry? Older usage says you need the comma, newer usage says maybe not.

Read the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves", by Lynne Truss. for details (and humor).

Answer 5

yes, commas indicate a pause.
in that case, a comma is to be used because long and dry are different adjectives referring to a single subject.