Ex 1 gradable adjectives
- 1. Adapted from: Cutting Edge, Module 7 p.71
Angry astonished boiling cold dirty exciting hot exhausted
fascinating filthy freezing frightened funny furious delighted
gorgeous hilarious interesting beautiful surprised terrified
thrilling tired happy
With gradable adjectives we used adverbs like: a bit / fairly/ very /
really/ extremely.
Ex: This is really good / I'd feel extremely frightened.
With non-gradable adjectives we use adverbs like: absolutely/ really/
completely/ thoroughly/ extremely
Ex: This is absolutely incredible. / This is reallyincredible.
Ordinary adjectives Extreme adjectives