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English Intensifiers
English Intensifiers
A modifier is either an adjective or an adverb: the adjectives modify the nouns, and the adverbs modify the verbs or the adjectives or the other adverbs.
An intensifier is a word that strengthens or weakens another word (usually the word immediately to its right). An intensifier has no real meaning by itself and can usually be removed from the sentence. Intensifiers are adverbs.
The most common intensifiers are “very,” “extremely,” and “incredibly.” The sole purpose of an intensifier is to tell us about the intensity of another word. 
Words that we commonly use as intensifiers include absolutely, completely, extremely, highly, rather, really, so, too, totally, utterly, very and at all.
Exercises
EXERCISE 1.
Pick the best option with regard to the intensity of the sentence.
Example:
The exam was quite/pretty hard, but he passed it.
- I’m absolutely/rather knackered; I’ve been up all night.
- It’s rather/extremely dangerous to play with guns.
- She’s quite/terribly pretty, but she didn’t win the beauty pageant.
- The politician made it absolutely/very clear that there would not be a tax cut.
- The woman was extremely/really distressed by the death of her dog.
EXERCISE 2.
Finish the sentences using one of the modifiers used above:
Example:
Come round for dinner, my wife is ________________________
Come round for dinner, my wife is an extremely good cook.
- Hurry up! We are
- We have completely redecorated the house, before it was
- Learning English is _____________________________________________
- Every year she sunbathes without protection. She is ____________________
- They have five children under ten. They are __________________________
- He is allergic to mosquitoes, he has to be ____________________________
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