Praxis Core For Dummies, with Online Practice Tests by Carla Kirkland

Author:Carla Kirkland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118612576
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-08-07T20:37:14+00:00

Separating multiple adjectives before a single noun

“The brave, popular, wizened, sleepy, jocular elephant taught the leopards to tango” is an example of a sentence containing multiple adjectives that all modify the same noun. Accordingly, they are separated by commas. As explained in the section on adjectives earlier in this chapter, certain types of adjectives don’t require commas even when they appear in series, but grammar tests very rarely test on this.

Semicolons

As far as the Praxis writing and virtually all other grammar tests are concerned, semicolons do one thing and one thing only: Namely, they separate two independent clauses within a single sentence. We’ve already talked about how two independent clauses can be joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction; the semicolon takes the place of both the comma and the coordinating conjunction. So you can write either of the following sentences:

I fed the cats, and now they like me.

I fed the cats; now they like me.

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