Question

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Fill in the blanks with the best compound adjective for the situation.
1. A. With
temperatures, this is the coldest winter on record.
Below zero
Below - zero
Freezing
2. B. Jeremy gave Linda a
engagement ring.
Gorgeous diamond
• Gorgeous - diamond
• Big
3. C. We're celebrating with a
bottle of champagne,
Costly
• Ten-year-old
10 year old​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. below zero

2. gorgeous diamond

3. costly

Answer 2

Answer:

1. With temperature below-zero, this is the coldest winter.
2. Jeremy gave Linda a gorgeous-diamond engagement ring.
3. We are celebrating with a ten-year-old bottle of champagne.

Explanation:

• Compound adjectives are the adjectives made of multiple words with already existing meaning.

• The individual words are connected by a (-) to create compound adjective.
• In these sentences below and zero are two different words which when combined with '-' forms below-zero, a compound adjective. Similarly, with gorgeous and diamond to form gorgeous-diamond and ten, year, old to form ten-year-old.

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