Base and Strong Adj
Base and Strong Adj
Base and Strong Adj
+ VERY
extremely/fairly/ + ABSOLUTELY
quite completely/totally/utterly/
quite
UNGRADABLE
GRADABLE = have NO comparative
= have comparative and and superlative
superlative forms
big bigger the biggest absolutely huge
good better the best completely terrified
totally incredible
very big quite perfect
extremely afraid
fairly surprising quite crazy = absolutely
quite good quite astonishing
quite filthy
He's quite
(=absolutely)
right.
-stress on RIGHT falling intonation
+ very + absolutely
quite BASE ADJECTIVE STRONG ADJECTIVE
The book's good. (= not very)
-stress on QUITE rising intonation afraid terrified, petrified
angry furious, livid
attractive gorgeous, wonderful
bad awful, horrible
beautiful fantastic, gorgeous
big huge, enormous,
gigantic, gargantuan
clever brilliant
cold freezing
difficult impossible Strong adj. are
dirty filthy adj. with an
funny hilarious ABSOLUTE
good fantastic, great, meaning. They
are also called
superb LIMIT or
happy delighted, thrilled EXTREME adj.
hot boiling, scalding
hungry starving, famished
interested fascinated
interesting fascinating
old ancient
sad inconsolable, grief-
stricken
An absolutely
silly crazy, stupid
fantastic star for small tiny, minute
you. surprising astonishing
tasteless horrible, disgusting
tasty delicious
tired exhausted, worn-out
unreasonable absurd
unhappy miserable
wet soaked
JUFA
JUFA
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very / quite / fairly/rather/extremely + base adj. (very big , quite cold , fairly old ,..)
KEY