Question

Read each sentence. Select correct if the sentence does not need any commas. Select incorrect if the

sentence needs a comma or commas.

14. Inside the dead, decaying tree trunk was a honeybee hive.
correct
incorrect

15. Many vivid tropical fish swam beneath our glass-bottomed
boat.
correct
incorrect

16. In Colonial America children went to school on foot in wagons and in sleighs.
correct
incorrect

Answer 1

14. correct
15. correct
16. incorrect

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that 14 is correct because it does not require a comma. The sentence is a clear example of the use of cumulative adjectives. Cumulative adjectives don't separately modify the noun that follows even though they are stacked up before the noun. That fact is that the adjective before the noun pairs with the noun as a unit, and then the adjective before that unit modifies that.

Sentence 15 is correct because it does not require a comma either because of the same reason (the use of cumulative adjectives). As regards sentence 16, it can be said that it is incorrect because it does requiere a comma since the prepositional phrase "in Colonial America" is an introductory phrase.