1. Study

1. A cold, wintry storm overtook us.

What two words describe the storm? How are they separated?

2. Gulliver gave up his knife, razor, purse, and snuff-box.

What words name the things that were given up? How are these words separated?

3. Bright yellow, red, and orange, The leaves came down in hosts.

What words are used alike in this sentence? What word connects the last two of them? Might it be used between the first two also? What mark separates them?

Words used alike are said to form a series. How are such words separated?

2. Exercises

1. What words in these sentences forma series? Copy the sentences and punctuate them properly.

Bright happy faces greeted us.

I spoke Latin French Spanish and Italian to them, but all to no purpose.

Longfellow's daughters were Alice Allegra and Edith. Brown rats black rats gray rats tawny rats Followed the piper for their lives.

2. Find sentences in your readers or write some of your own which contain words used in a series.

3. Make arule for punctuating such words.