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Adverbs of Degree

All these cars are damaged but the damage is not the same in all,
there are different intensities
After the accident my car was a bit damaged.
After the accident my car was quite damaged.
After the accident my car was really damaged.
After the accident my car was very damaged.
After the accident my car was extremely damaged.
 Degree adverbs are used to provide descriptive adjectives and adverbs with
a certain intensity.

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slightly kind of rather quite very extremely


a (liitle) bit somewhat fairly pretty terribly
incredibly
 However, there are some adjectives that reflect an extreme intensity:
Fantastic, Incredible, Perfect, Guilty, Wrong.
 Adverbs used with these are: Absolutely, quite, completely, totally,
utterly, entirely, exclusively, fully, largely, mainly, perfectly, really,
simply.
After the accident my car was completely destroyed.
Temperatures in Antarctica are absolutely freezing.
This answer is totally wrong.
It is utterly imposible that dragons existed.

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