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D. Circle the best option to complete each sentence.

1. The dance and music show on the TV was nowhere near / far as good as the one we watched live
last summer.
2. The exam was slightly / far more difficult than I had expected. I still did fine.
3. The sequel is almost / a little as exciting as the first book.
4. I see a lot / a bit better when I wear my glasses. I can even see the smallest letters.

5. The flat I have rented is a lot / slightly cheaper than the one I used to live in. I can save up now.
6. Far / A little more people have attended the meeting than that was expected.

Intensifiers

Here is a list of common intensifiers used with adjectives:

amazingly especially hugely surprisingly
awfully exceedingly incredibly suspiciously
bitterly extremely particularly terribly
critically greatly really unbelievably
dangerously highly remarkably very

deeply hopelessly seriously violently
dreadfully horribly strikingly wonderfully

His film was incredibly boring.
Your brother tends to be extremely irresponsible, so I wouldn’t count on him.

The following intensifiers indicate the extent of the quality you are describing, i.e., give an idea of its
‘totality’:

almost nearly absolutely purely
exclusively partly altogether quite
fully predominantly completely simply

largely primarily entirely totally
mainly mostly perfectly utterly
roughly

Wait, we are nearly finished.
I mostly agree with your ideas.

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