Question

Which of these quotations from the poem contains a coordinating conjunction?

A. “How the monster relished his savage war / On the Danes,”


B. “Remember, / Hrothgar, O knowing king …”


C. “And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,”


D. “Then when the darkness had dropped, Grendel"

Answer 1

The quotation from the poem containing a coordinating conjunction is option C: “And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,”

A coordinating conjuction refers to a word that links two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance. That word is placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank, e.g. and, but, or. There are seven coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet.

Answer 2

The correct answer of the given question above would be option C. The quotation from the poem that contains a coordinating conjunction would be this: “And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,” The coordinating conjunction in this sentence is the word "and". Hope this answer helps.