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What part of speech is the word in italics?

Brian walked slowly home, as the day was so warm and pleasant. (5 points)
Noun
Verb
Adverb
Adjective
italics : warm

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User Radiodef
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The correct answer is option D (adjective).

In this case, the adjective "warm" is preceded by the intensifier "so". Adjectives have the syntactic function of talking about nouns' attributes, as we can see in the example provided, since being "warm" is the attribute of the noun "day".

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User AMunim
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adjective. it describes a noun

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User Kgsharathkumar
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