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Which of the following is correct? If both are acceptable which is preferred?

Our product lets you manage all of your stuff in one easy place.

Our product lets you manage all of your stuff in one, easy place.

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Michiel Ariens
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    Although there is a difference here: 'one' is not classified as an adjective. Determiners and numerals always precede adjectives and should not be followed by a comma. 'One' and 'easy' cannot be considered to be in any way coordinate. – Edwin Ashworth May 04 '18 at 08:41
  • Since they aren't both adjectives, and because the answer on the linked question doesn't address placing commas between determiners and attributive modifiers, this is certainly not a duplicate of the linked question. –  May 04 '18 at 11:50
  • @snailboat I'll leave the close-vote; the questions are to some degree related. The situation is far easier with determiners / numerals and prenominal adjectives: commas are not used between a numeral or determiner and an adjective. many, green leaves // a, red book // a lot of, brown bread // one/1, red book // 12/a dozen, easy places. – Edwin Ashworth May 04 '18 at 16:20

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No, the option with comma is not acceptable. The adjectives modify the word place in a different way. They are not "coordinate adjectives". There's a simple two-step test for that:

  1. Can we place and between the adjectives? (Note: "one" is not strictly an adjective)

Our product lets you manage all of your stuff in one and easy place.

No.

  1. Can we change the order of adjectives?

Our product lets you manage all of your stuff in easy one place.

No.

Thus, there should be no comma between your adjectives. See the subsection in Wikipedia's article on Comma:

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CowperKettle
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  • @EdwinAshworth - I was 100% sure they had been but I'm feeling under the weather and am now spending my time refreshing my grammar knowledge. Posting an answer is a good way of doing that. (0: – CowperKettle May 04 '18 at 08:34
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    Sorry; ran out of time searching for a better example. Coordinate and cumulative adjectives and the tests for differentiating have been covered here before. As has the difference a comma makes if included in say 'a novel, industry-inspired problem' {= a problem that is both novel and industry-inspired} and 'a novel industry-inspired problem' {= a new member of the set of problems inspired by industry}. // Note also that 'one' is not an adjective. – Edwin Ashworth May 04 '18 at 08:44
  • @EdwinAshworth - thank you! I'll read up on cumulative adjectives. – CowperKettle May 04 '18 at 11:21