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8. Gradable Adjectives, Intensifiers & Strong Adjectives

Intensifiers are used before adjectives as adverb to make them more emphatic. Example: big, somewhat big, pretty big, very big, and incredibly big. These intensifiers are of three kinds which are as follows. High Intensifiers (adverbs) include:- absolutely, completely, entirely, exceptionally, extremely, fully, highly, insanely, incredibly, perfectly, totally, unbelievably, utterly, very much. Medium Intensifier include:- almost, particularly, pretty, quite, rather, really,

9. Absolute Adjectives (A to L)

Examples of non-gradable adjectives apart from ‘strong’ adjectives are adjectives like: dead, weekly, empty, frozen, tired, and blue. We do not say ‘somewhat dead’, ‘very empty’, ‘unusually impossible’, ‘relatively frozen’, ‘mildly tired’, ‘very blue’. However high intensity adverbs ‘completely/ absolutely/ totally/ extremely’ and in some cases medium adverb ‘really’ can be used. For example: completely dead, absolutely empty, extremely tired, totally frozen, really impossib

10. Absolute Adjectives (M to W)

main player, major hurdle, malfunctioning sensor, manifest abuse/injustice/ evidence/ effect, married, perfectly matching, matchless, maximal growth/ injuries/ strength/ stress/ diversity, quite meaningful, utterly meaningless, melting temperature, brutally merciless, middle path, midway restaurant, extremely mindful, absolutely minimal, minor mistakes, missing passengers, mortal remains, multiple injuries, mutual consent/respect necessary measures/precautions/steps, absolu

11. Typical Adjective Intensifiers - Part 1

This article is about use of intensifiers: such,so, that, too, enough, pretty, as..as and also adjectives which are used as iintensifiers. Such/So ‘such’ unlike ‘so’ is not an intensifier (adverb) but a determiner (more like an adjective) which is used to emphasise a noun or noun phrase. ‘so’ as an adverb is however used only to intensify a predicate adjective.

12. Typical Adjective Intensifiers - Part 2

Absolute, Perfect, Sheer, Total, Utter, Very are also used as Adjectives apart from Adjective Intensifiers. Absolute: total Absolute secrecy/ silence/ perfection/ integrity/ passion/ disregard/ shock/ lie Absolute: expressing emphatic opinion Absolute miracle/ folly/ disgrace/ joy/ necessity/ moron/ favourite/ rubbish/ Absolute: unconditional; unlimited Absolute authority/ right/ power Absolute: not relative or comparative Absolute moral standards/ terms

13. Derived Adjectives with Suffixes

Quite a few Adjectives are derived from Nouns and Verbs with suffixes which are as many as 40 as given in the table below, such as: universal, customary, skilful, harmonic, logical, foolish, warlike, dangerous, costly, compliant, dependent, creative, interesting, lovable. In the end there is a list of adjectives with French/Latin root with suffix -ible/able which explain their meaning. There is also a list of words which have same suffix –able/ible, but they differ in semant

14. Participial Adjective

Learning Outcome What are participial adjectives What is the difference in their use as pre-modifier and post-modifier Why ‘interesting game’ and ‘interested residents’ are correct But ‘interesting residents’ and ‘interested game’ do not sound correct Participial Adjectives ending in -ing or –ed are derived from verb and therefore ‘verb-ing’ or ‘verb-ed’. 1) Board games interest him.[verb] [It is incorrect to say :’He is (gets) interested by board game

15. Post Positive Adjectives

Post-positive adjectives follow immediately after the noun it modifies. However unlike a post-modifier; post-positive is not a phrase or clause. For example while ‘available’ after vegetables is post-positive, ‘available in the supermarket’, ‘available at wholesale rate’ used after vegetables are not post-positives. An adjective is used post-positively for conveying what is true for some time, some thing, and some people, something specific/particular/ limited and also for dr

1. Collocations with Adj.- B & C

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2. Thesaurus of Select Words B - Part 1

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3. Thesaurus of Select Words B - Part2

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