Which answer is correctly punctuated? (A) Tourists in Mexico enjoy eating the rich delicious food. (B) Tourists in Mexico enjoy,
eating the rich, delicious food. (C)Tourists in Mexico enjoy eating the rich, delicious food. (D) Tourists in Mexico enjoy, eating the rich delicious food. Description
I believe it is C. Try and think about where you would naturally pause, you wouldn't say "Tourists in Mexico *pause* enjoy eating the rich, delicious food."
The answer that is correctly punctuated is C: <u>Tourists in Mexico enjoy eating the rich, delicious food.</u>
Explanation:
One of the many uses of the comma is to separate the words that describe the object we are talking about. In this case, the object is the food, and rich and delicious are characteristics of it. The enumeration of adjectives (like any any enumeration) have to be separated by a comma.
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