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non-restricitive adjectives ?



 
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non-restricitive adjectives ? #1 (permalink) Fri Jan 13, 2012 14:46 pm   non-restricitive adjectives ?
 

Is this sentence correct:
1-The film is in the funny Chaplinesque style.

Do we need a comma after "funny"?

The Chaplinesque style is itself funny so "funny" here is not defining a sub-category of "Chaplinesque". I wondered if in cases like this one would need a comma.
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non-restricitive adjectives ? #2 (permalink) Fri Jan 13, 2012 15:37 pm   non-restricitive adjectives ?
 

A comma would seem to imply that there is a genre called "the funny style", which seems doubtful to me. Therefore I think I would leave it out. Compare: "The film is in a funny, Chaplinesque style." where the comma seems correct.
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