B2. REGULAR & EXTREME ADJ (pres)

Modifiers

make adjectives, adverbs, verbs or nouns sronger or weaker

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Index

find out what the modifiers are and how they are used

Extreme and regular adjectives list

Modifier + regular adjectives

Modifier + extreme adjectives

a bit / too

universal modifiers

Modifier + noun

collocations

video story

01 Extreme and normal adjectives list

test myself

Extreme adjectives take:

• absolutely
• completely
• utterly
• totally
• quite
• really
• pretty
• so

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Regular adjectives take:

• fairly
• rather
• very
• too
• a bit/ little too
• way/miles too
• a bit (-)
• quite

• pretty

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Both adjectives can take:

• quite
• really
• pretty
• so

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Match the adjectives

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good

terrible

clean

delicious

dirty

thin

gaunt

soaked

pretty

wet

spotless

tiny

surprising

bad

gorgeous

astounding

small

tasty

fanatstic

filthy

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Modifiers with nouns

To modify nouns, use a bit of or adjectives like real, complete, slight or hardly any, almost no.

• It was a complete waste of time.
• It was a bit of a nightmare.
• It was a bit dull. There were hardly any activities.

Hardly is a negative and goes with any anything, etc.Almost goes with no, nothing, don't, didn't, etc.

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too

a bit

a bit is used with negative adjectives only to make them weaker. too always shows you don't like something or it's a problem. If the problem is small, use a bit / a little too. If it's a big problem use much/miles too.

• It was a bit of a nightmare.
• It was miles too hot for my liking. I simply couldn't go outside.

• The food was quite nice, but maybe a bit bland.
• It was a bit too hot for my liking. I can't do much in that heat.

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Extreme adjectives in a story.

Watch and listen to the story. Can you upgrade the story adding the modifiers? In what spots adding modifiers will be natural?

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Collocations

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