Question

Which sentence uses the word legitimate correctly?

The bright colors in the painting look so legitimate.

The legitimate nature of the birds made me want to feed them more crumbs.

After a long day at school, I sunk into the legitimate sofa.

A delay due to a serious snowstorm is a legitimate reason for being late.

Answer 1

Thoughts? There’s a lot of definitions of legitimate but the one we’ll focus on is “able to be defended with logic or justification” (sourced from oxford languages)

With that in mind, which sentence do you think is using legitimate correctly?

Answer 2

D?

Answer 3

good

in choice D, the word legitimate is being used to say that the reason (for being late) is able to be defended with logic (the delay happens due to a snowstorm)

Answer 4

thanks

Answer 5

ur cool