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How to Use Intensifiers in English

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INTENSIFIERS

How to Use Intensifiers in English


What are intensifiers?
• Intensifiers are adverbs
(a kind of adverb of
degree) that can make • These words don’t
a word stronger or really mean anything
weaker and more on their own – if
meaningful. An they’re removed
intensifier typically from a sentence, the
modifies the adjective sentence will still
that comes right after
it.
make sense.
Examples of intensifiers

Words like very, really and


extremely to make Other examples
adjectives stronger: • amazingly
• exceptionally
• It's a very interesting story.
• Everyone was very excited. • incredibly
particularly
• It's a really interesting
story. • remarkably
• Everyone was extremely • unusually
excited.
Common intensifiers and how to
use them

These intensifiers can These intensifiers are


be used for both used to say
positive and negative something negative:
statements: • Awfully
• Pretty, Fairly, Quite, • Dreadfully
Really, Very, Super,
Extremely, • Horribly
Incredibly, Insanely • Terribly
Here are a few examples
for you
• Statement: I’m pretty • Meaning: The hotel’s prices
disappointed I can’t come to the are higher than most others.
party. It’s more than very expensive.
• Meaning: You’re disappointed, • Meaning: The hotel’s prices
but not too disappointed; you’ll
are higher than most others.
be fine.
It’s more than very expensive.
• Statement: Can we order our
food? I’m really hungry. • Statement: My mom’s
cooking is terribly bland.
• Meaning: A casual way of saying
‘very’: You’re very hungry. • Meaning: Her cooking has no
• Statement: That hotel is flavour at all; it needs a lot
incredibly expensive. more seasoning.

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