Homework Help: Grammar

Posted by Leslie on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 5:50pm.

1. Her husband, a kind, quiet gentleman, worked for HHS's public relations department.

2. Her husband, a kind quiet gentleman, worked for HHSs public relations department.

Question:
choose the sentence that is written and punctuated correctly.
50 - 50 I choose #1. flows better.

Grammar - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 6:00pm
You're right.

A rough rule-of-thumb when you have two adjectives together: Put a comma between them if you could also use "and" between them.

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