22 November 2023

B1. 2B Changing lives

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  2. HOW LONG/ BE A TEACHER?
  3. HOW LONG/ WORK AT THIS SCHOOL?
  4. HOW LONG/LIVE IN THIS TOWN?
  5. HOW LONG/KNOWN YOUR BEST FRIEND?
FOR- period of time e.g 2 months, 3 years, a long time, ages
SINCE- a point in time. e.g. October, I was born, last summer, I was a child, etc.




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Gradable adjectives

Most adjectives are gradable. This means we can have different levels of that quality. For example, you can be a bit cold, very cold or extremely cold. We can make them weaker or stronger with modifiers:

She was quite angry when she found out.
The film we saw last night was really funny!
It can be extremely cold in Russia in the winter.

 

Non-gradable: extreme adjectives

Adjectives like amazing, awful and boiling are also non-gradable. They already contain the idea of 'very' in their definitions. If we want to make extreme adjectives stronger, we have to use absolutely or really:

Did you see the final match? It was absolutely amazing!
After 32 hours of travelling, they were absolutely exhausted.
My trip home was really awful. First, the traffic was really bad, then the car broke down and we had to walk home in the rain.

Here is a list of some common extreme adjectives and some modifiers that we can use with them.

Modifiersabsolutely/really
Adjectivesamazing, ancient, awful, boiling, delicious, enormous, excellent, exhausted, fascinating, freezing, gorgeous, terrible, terrifying, tiny, etc.

 









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