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Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives
Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives
Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives
•Gradable adjectives
can be intensified with various words: quite,
reasonably, moderately, very, fairly . These words
would express the ‘intensity’ or ‘degree’of the
adjective.
•Ungradable adjectives
are ‘extreme’ or complete in themselves. They can be
further intensified with words like absolutely, extremely,
etc that emphasise the word itself but do not express
different degrees of it.
Which adjectives take ‘very’? Which take
‘absolutely’
Which adjectives take ‘very’? Which take
‘absolutely’