Intensifying Adverbs
Intensifying Adverbs
Intensifying Adverbs
Secondary Level
I E P San Luis
English Department
INTENSIFYING ADVERBS
expensive exorbitant
EXERCISES
I Match the adverbs in A with the adjectives in B to make common collocations.
A absolutely bitterly deeply highly highly ridiculously strongly
B expensive freezing probable regret successful suggest Touched
II Which words does not collocate with the adverb?
1 deeply believe moving religious
2 ridiculously cheap easy imposible
3 highly cold unsual unlikely
4 strongly recommend beleve care
5 totally amazing large understand
II Complete the sentences with a suitable adjective from the box.
starving boiling hot enormous fascinating tiny astonished filthy
brilliant exhausted furious essential terrible gorgeous packed freezing
1.- When will lunch be ready? We ‘re starving.
2.- Can you close the window? I’m freezing.
3.- My cousins live in an enormous house. It has got eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two
living rooms …
4.- Susan looks gorgeous in her new dress
5.- We went to the cinema yesterday evening and we watched a fascinating film.
6.- My parents will be furious if we are late again.
7.- The floor was covered in tiny bits of paper.
8.- Wash your hands before dinner. They are filthy.
9.- Paul’s been working all day. He looks exhausted.
10.- The food in the hotel was terrible. We didn’t have any meal while we stayed there.
11.- Einstein was a brillant scientist.
12.- Open the windows, please. I’m boiling hot.
13.- Computer are nowadays an essential part of our lives.
14.- We were astonished at the extraordinary beauty of the pictures.