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[Jerry Chen]

Hello,


Please read this sentence:

By taking a close look at how children learn a language, perhaps we can find a better, more natural way to learn English.

I wonder why better and more natural are not connected by a conjunction and but by a comma, i.e., "...a better and more natural way..."

Thanks for your help!!

[zeh88]

i think punctuations are used to add style to the writing piece the way you want. so basically it depends on the style of the writer.
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[CP]

Stringing together two or more adjectives with commas in place of "and" is done all the time. So your sentence could be written with "and" instead of a comma, and it is a matter of style, as Zeh88 said.
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