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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

are these adjectives coordinate?

...beside me sat the skins of twelve virgin rainbow-colored unicorns.
  

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Put the color before the virgin, and a comma between them. I had to wonder what a virgin rainbow was.

— BarbaraPA

  • Put the color before the virgin, and a comma between them.
  • I had to wonder what a virgin rainbow was.
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Put the color before the virgin, and a comma between them. I had to wonder what a virgin rainbow was.
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Yes, good suggestion. But when I use the test of using 'and' between the adjectives to determine if they are coordinate, the answer is a no, since doing so would suggest that there was a mixture of twelve virgin unicorns and rainbow-coloured unicorns.

Does anyone agree?
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AnonymousYes, good suggestion. But when I use the test of using 'and' between the adjectives to determine if they are coordinate, the answer is a no, since doing so would suggest that there was a mixture of twelve virgin unicorns and rainbow-coloured unicorns.

Does anyone agree?

You need to explain the "and" test to me.

The unico
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