Coordination

You can coordinate noun phrases and clauses with coordinating conjunctions:

• Salt and vinegar taste good on chips. (noun phrases)
• I can go to the game or I can go to the concert.

Verb phrases

When a single noun is the subject of multiple verbs:

• I ate the burger and drank the soda.
• Sally was singing, laughing, and skipping all the way to the show.

Commas and adjectives

To figure out whether they are coordinate, check the following:

• Replace the comma with and
• Move the adjectives around

Commas go between coordinate adjectives but they do not go between noncoordinate adjectives.

Coordinate adjectives are joined with implied coordinating conjunctions. The commas represent the conjunction:

• Sara is reading my boring, nerdy, time-consuming writing notes.