Select the correct text in the passage. Identify the pair of coordinate adjectives in the passage. There was never a doubt in my
mind that Maggie Flint was one of the most vicious, cruel girls I have ever known. She was always mean to the newer students and used her position to bully everyone. I would have never believed that she was capable of any compassion. But then I saw her taking care of a crippled race horse. She bathed him, groomed him, and even took him for strolls in the park. Everyone knew that the horse was too severely injured to race, but that didn’t bother Maggie. She showed surprising compassion.
Identify the pair of coordinate adjectives in the passage.
Answer:
vicious, cruel
Explanation:
Coordinate adjectives are words that describe the same noun and are usually equal in importance.
The adjectives <em>vicious, cruel</em> are coordinate adjectives because they describe the same noun <u>girls</u>. They are equal in importance. We can also insert the conjunction and between them: 'one of the most vicious and cruel girls'. This also proves that these are coordinate adjectives.
When the conjunction and does not work between two adjectives, they are not coordinate adjectives.
A small increase in the volume would no alert the father of Sangram who is one room away, because that change would only be noticeable for Sangram who is in the same room, but when he doubled the volume from 15 to 30, it was more obvious for his father, one room away, that Sangram was using the remote control and that he was changing the volume in the TV.
