Stop text highlight tool from auto-selecting punctuation?

In Acrobat X, I need to highlight a word but NOT the comma following it. How do I stop the Highlight Text tool from automatically including punctuation in the highlight? This is driving me nuts!

Not quite sure if I know what you mean... I'm not typing any punctuation in my comments because it's not part of what I want to mark for editing.
I guess if I want to tell the editor to change the following:
colourful, long-lived
to
colorful, long-lived
then I'm forced to highlight the comma along with "colourful" and type out the replacement text as "colorful," (with the comma)
or else I'm instructing them to produce this:
colorful long-lived
which would be wrong.

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