GIVE ANSWERS - English

First correction - sentence.

”His works are for the kids because of the cheerful assuring tales they tell.”

This is a good question and it’s possible both with and without a comma!

But before I can answer this, I almost certainly need to explain adjective order in English - most people teaching English never do this in their classes

Adjectives are generally in the following order: opinion/attitude, size, physical quality, age, shape, colour, origin, material, type and purpose.

So, to give an example: ”There is a big five-year-old brick house.” Here, ”big” - physical quantity, ”five-year-old” - age and ”brick” - material.

You put a comma between two adjectives with a similar sense of meaning.

For example, ”it was a black, reddish wall.”.

Here, both ”black” and ”reddish” are adjectives for ”colour” to describe the wall.

For your example of ”cheerful assuring tales”... both ”cheerful” and ”assuring” could be either ”opinion” or ”type” here.

So there are three possible cases:

1/ ”cheerful” and ”assuring” are both opinions,
2/ ”cheerful” and ”assuring” are both types or
3/ ”cheerful” and ”assuring” where ”cheerful” is an opinion and ”assuring” is a type.

The case where ”cheerful” is a ”type” and ”assuring” is an opinion is not possible because ”type” adjectives come after ”opinion” ones.

For case 1/ you need a comma because ”cheerful” and ”assuring” have a similar sense of meaning - they are both ”opinions”.

Similarly for 2/ we need a comma because they are both ”types”.

So, for cases 1/ and 2/ we write ”cheerful, assuring tales” (comma!).

For case 3/ there is no comma because ”cheerful” is an ”opinion” and ”assuring” is a ”type”. Then you would write ”cheerful assuring tales” (no comma!).

It’s not possible just from the sentence you’ve given to determine which of the three possibilities you’re talking about. There’s not enough context.