4 Intensifiers:
( Intermediate)
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We use words like very, really and extremely to make adjectives stronger: It’ s a very interesting story Everyone was very excited. It’ s a really interesting story. Everyone was extremely excited. We call these words intensifiers. Other intensifiers are: amazingly exceptionally incredibly
remarkably particularly unusually
We also use enough to say more about an adjective, but enough comes after its adjective:
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If you are seventeen you are old enough to drive a car. I can’ t wear those shoes. They’ re not big enough.
Intensifiers with strong adjectives:
Strong adjectives are words like: enormous, huge = very big tiny = very small brilliant = very clever awful; terrible; disgusting; dreadful = very bad certain = very sure excellent; perfect; ideal; wonderful; splendid = very good delicious = very tasty
We do not normally use very with these adjectives. We do not say something is " very enormous " or someone is " very brilliant ".
With strong adjectives, we normally use intensifiers like: absolutely completely totally utterly really exceptionally particularly quite The film was absolutely awful.