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angry bad - big busy comfortable common difficult dirty - good - happy - important influential - popular powerful pretty - quiet rich small - strong unimportant - weak young
If you want to describe these adjectives in more detail, there are certain adverbs (of degree) to choose from. For example, we can use "very" with a gradable adjective e.g.
very
good. Here are some other adverbs which you can use to describe gradable
adjectives:
deeply - dreadfully - enormously - extremely fairly hugely immensely pretty (informal) rather really reasonably - slightly - very
amazed amazing - awful beautiful - clear - dreadful fantastic filthy - furious huge identical - impossible invaluable possible - terrible unchanged useful - useless - wonderful
If you want to describe these adjectives in more detail, there are certain adverbs (of degree) to choose from. For example, we can use "absolutely" with a strong adjective e.g. absolutely terrible. Here are some other adverbs which you can use to describe ungradable adjectives:
pretty good.
Adverb/Adjective collocations
Be careful! Certain adverb/adjective word pairs work. Others don't. With time, you can get a feel for them. There is no explanation why some work and others don't. Example: I'm hugely sorry that you didn't get the job. I'm extremely/terribly sorry that you didn't get the job.
Ungradable adjectives
clear, necessary, sure, true awful, enormous, terrible exhausted, unbearable, unrecognisable
1 __________________________________ amazing 2 _________________________________ interesting 3 __________________________________ nervous 4 __________________________________ frightened 5 __________________________________ hilarious 6 __________________________________ incredible 7 __________________________________ funny 8 __________________________________ dirty 9 __________________________________ perfect 10 __________________________________ thrilled 11 _________________________________ enormous 12 __________________________________ tasty 13 _________________________________ enjoyable 14 __________________________________ fantastic 15 __________________________________ pretty 16 __________________________________ angry 17 __________________________________ furious 18 __________________________________ lucky 19 __________________________________ terrified 20 __________________________________ exciting
Which adverb can describe these adjectives? It must be able to describe all 3. Choose from the box.
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