is for questions about modifiers that make adjectives stronger, like very, utterly, quite, absolutely, etc.
Questions tagged [intensifiers]
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Intensifier or mitigator?
When we use pretty with please as on “pretty please, then “please is used as an intensifier, right? Can’t we use any other intensifier with please?
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How to intensify the structure: "someone is jealous of someone else"
How you would intensify the following sentence:
He is jealous of me.
I'm not sure, but which one of the following sentences works here:
He is a serious jealous of me.
He is a real jealous of me.
He is a severe jealous of me.
I was wondering…
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Is "Busy" stronger or weaker than "Quite busy" and "Pretty busy"?
I'm a bit confused about the use of the intensifiers (pretty, quite, and rather) with gradable adjectives. Some resources state that they weaken the adjectives that follow them, whereas others indicate that they add more strength.
I would appreciate…
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Is the "too" in the idiom "too clever by half" redundant?
I read a sentence in "The Hindu" which was:
Instead, the attempt to be clever by half in his affidavit by having the word "regret" in brackets has only landed him in a soup.
Acoording to thefreedictionary.com, "by half" means - An intensifier…
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The intensifier "fantastically"
I know that we can use the intensifier "fantastically" in constructions such as:
The team played fantastically well.
The car is fantastically expensive.
But can we say
He was fantastically thirsty
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Intensifier do in the past tense
They did create/created the first representative government.
Which one is better? Different non-native people think differently.
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Meaning of 'more than average' in the context of pretty/rather/quite/fairly
I have found that adverbs such as 'pretty', 'fairly',
'quite', and 'rather' imply the same meaning as 'more than average' or 'to some extent' when these adverbs are used with gradable adjectives. But I'm very confused because I'm not understanding…
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Where to place intensifiers for 'none'
[1] I met none of the Americans in the group who wanted to meet me.
If you wanted to emphasize 'none' with 'whatsoever,' 'whatever,' 'at all,' 'in the least,' 'by any means,' or 'in any way,' where would you place them? Perhaps between 'in the…
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Regarding so and very
As we use so before adjective like "the movie is so interesting," but can I say negative way like "the movie is not so interesting" means I want to say someone the movie not good?
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