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2 Family and Frıends

Grammar 2 Strong adjectives and intensifiers

Strong adjectives

A. Match the base adjectives on the left with the C. Circle the correct option. If both are correct,
strong adjectives on the right. circle them both.

1. We went to the desert last year. It was
base adjectives strong adjectives
absolutely / very boiling.
1. good a. exhausted 2. I’m extremely bad / awful at maths, I really
2. bad b. freezing need to work harder.
3. hot c. furious 3. What’s so funny / hilarious? Tell me the joke!
4. cold d. starving 4. There was a(n) extremely / totally enormous

5. interesting e. great spider in my room last night.
6. funny f. hilarious 5. I was absolutely / so terrified.
7. scared g. tiny 6. My teacher was very / completely angry
yesterday when no one had done the
8. big h. awful
homework.
9. small i. boiling
7. I’m completely hungry / starving. When are we
10. tired j. terrified
having dinner?
11. hungry k. enormous
8. She’s absolutely good / great at singing, she
12. angry l. fascinating should enter a competition.

Intensifiers D. Tell your partner about a time when you were:

We use intensifiers such as very, really and
absolutely to make adjectives stronger. absolutely freezing

totally furious
B. Write the headings in the correct columns
to show when we use these intensifiers: extremely tired

a. with base and strong adjectives. particularly hungry
b. only strong adjectives. completely fascinated
c. only base adjectives.
quite scared

really hilarious
1. 2. 3.

very absolutely really

extremely completely quite

particularly totally so

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