Adapted from: Cutting Edge, Module 7 p.71

Ordinary adjectives Extreme adjectives

Angry astonished boiling cold dirty exciting hot exhausted fascinating filthy freezing frightened funny furious delighted gorgeous hilarious interesting beautiful surprised terrified thrilling tired happy

With gradable adjectives we used adverbs like: a bit / fairly/ very / really/ extremely.

Ex: This is really good / I'd feel extremely frightened.

With non- gradable adjectives we use adverbs like: absolutely/ really/ completely/ thoroughly/ extremely

Ex: This is absolutely incredible. / This is really incredible.

Adapted from: Cutting Edge, Module 7 p.71