1. The Trail of Tears, also known as Nunna dual Tsuny, was a heartbreaking sorrowful part of history. 2. In 1838, the Cherokee people began being removed from their homelands in Georgia and Tennessee. 3. General Winfield Scott and his numerous Georgia militiamen and Army regulars started with the first of three removal phases. 4. When more than four thousand Cherokees died from the heat in the first stage of removal, a compromise was made to wait until the fall to continue with the unnecessarily cruel process.

Question

Which sentence from the passage contains coordinate adjectives that should be separated by a comma?
Responses
A sentence 1sentence 1
B sentence 2sentence 2
C sentence 3sentence 3
D sentence 4sentence 4

Answer 1

The correct answer is A: sentence 1.

In sentence 1, "heartbreaking" and "sorrowful" are coordinate adjectives that should be separated by a comma: "The Trail of Tears, also known as Nunna dual Tsuny, was a heartbreaking, sorrowful part of history."