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4 Intensifiers :
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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 .