ooh! grammar! This is my specialty...since that's my job.
The sentence is correct without the comma. When you have to adjectives together, you usually put a comma in between them: they're called coordinating adjectives.
For example: The cloudy, rainy day was terrible.
The words cloudy and rainy modify the noun day. However, the words cold and February do not modify morning. Only cold is a modifier. Cold modifies the phrase February morning. So, you don't need the comma.
It all depends on the context of what you are writing. For example, if you are talking strictly about mornings and then being cold (and it happens to be in Feb.), then a "cold February morning" works.
If you are writing something that for some reason has something to do with, for example, another month, (i.e., it's Christmas time and you are reflecting back on something that happened earlier that year), then "cold, February morning" works as well.
Commas do have strict placement, but that refers more to overuse or misuse. They can also be used very effectively as a way to add "voice" to your writing.
What everyone has said is right, but I thought I'd throw in what I always tell the international students when I tutor them in writing - the rules are irrelevant..."cold February morning" is the accepted way of writing it (here in America anyway, I'm not responsible for funky people who put extra U's in things, lol). It's just the way we do it, grammatically flawless or not.
I have a subject called "Research and Writing", this semester. For the most part it's basically a rehash of all the grammar and spelling rules most of us should've learned in high school. However, it takes it one step beyond by dealing with most of the more subtle "rules"; that is, learning where putting commas and stuff isn't right or wrong, but stylistically appropiate. In the end it's all up to the writer whether a comma is appropiate in those instances, so the class ends up always boiling down to 30 minute discussions of who is "more right". It's all very frustrating because we never get anywhere and because the teacher is an idiot.
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The sentence is correct without the comma. When you have to adjectives together, you usually put a comma in between them: they're called coordinating adjectives.
For example: The cloudy, rainy day was terrible.
The words cloudy and rainy modify the noun day. However, the words cold and February do not modify morning. Only cold is a modifier. Cold modifies the phrase February morning. So, you don't need the comma.
Hope that helps.
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:D Just kidding!
And yes, it does help. Thanks, Diego!
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It all depends on the context of what you are writing. For example, if you are talking strictly about mornings and then being cold (and it happens to be in Feb.), then a "cold February morning" works.
If you are writing something that for some reason has something to do with, for example, another month, (i.e., it's Christmas time and you are reflecting back on something that happened earlier that year), then "cold, February morning" works as well.
Commas do have strict placement, but that refers more to overuse or misuse. They can also be used very effectively as a way to add "voice" to your writing.
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