Adverbs modifying adjectives: very difficult?
In this exercise where we look at how adverbs can be used with adjectives. In addition to examining different meanings added when using adverbs, the exercise should encourage an awareness of synonyms and offer suggestions of how to vary the language.
Adjectives can be used with a preceding adverb. The adverb can make the sense of the
adjective stronger or weaker. A very common way of modyfing adjectives is with the word
very: Very bad, very good, very happy.
- Try to think of some other adverbs that you can use to make an adjective stronger or weaker.
- Write three sentences including the word difficult. Then add an adverb. How does that change the meaning?
- Now make a search in the corpus for the word difficult preceded by an adverb. [illustration: Query builder, with Addkey query in first content node, phrase query in the second, link 'Next'] . Download 50 random hits.You can repeat the search to see more/other examples.
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