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Warm Up:

Adverb:

Adjective:

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Adjective Placement in Sentences:

determiner opinion age origin (noun)

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Can you recall the placement

of adverbs in sentences?

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Adjective Gradability:

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Gradable Adjectives:

grading adverb

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gradable adjective

a little / a bit

dreadfully

extremely

fairly

hugely

immensely

intensely

rather

reasonably

slightly

unusually

very

...

angry

big

busy

clever

cold

deep

fast

hot

important

long

popular

rich

strong

tall

warm

weak

young

...

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Non-gradable Adjectives:

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non-grading adverbs non-gradable adjectives

absolutely awful (extreme)

utterly excellent

completely terrified

totally dead (absolute)

nearly impossible

virtually uniqueessentially chemical (classifying)

mainly digital

almost domestic

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Instead of trying to learn lists of gradable and non-gradable adjective/adverb, it's better to understand

what makes an adjective gradable or non-gradable. This is a matter of logic and common sense.

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AnswerKey:

1.C

2.C

3.C

4.B

5.A