Grammar Study

Type 2

Type 1

Intensifying adverbs

1. When a speaker wants to emphasize an adjective or participle or make it stronger (especially during an emotional exchange such as complaining and apologizing), it is common to use an intensifying adverb. However, not all combination of adverbs and adjective are possible.

e.g. I’m extremely sorry. It was absolutely rediculous.

Up a lot	very	good
really	tired
awfully	sorry
extremely	good-looking

Ex. 16. Which adjective can be used with each adverb? Tick (V) the appropriate boxes.

	Sorry	Sure	Disappointed	Annoyed	Unacceptable
Extremely
Absolutely
Very
Terribly
Quite

Ex. 17. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate adverb/adjective combination from above.

1. I’m _______ _______ that I didn’t make any international phone calls from my room.

2. We were _______ _______ with the hotel, consider that so many people had recommended it to us.

3. The standard the food was terrible. It was _______ _______.

4. The swimming-pool obviously hadn’t been cleaned for ages. It was _______ _______.

5. I’m _______ _______ that it’s so noisy. Unfortunately, it’s unavoidable becaus we’re having essential repairs done.

6. The chef is obviously a perfectionist. He gets _______ _______ it the slightest thing goes wrong.

Ex. 18. Translate the following word combinations.

1. enthusiastically made 2. strongly influenced 3. highly developed 4. well preserved 5. closely connected 6. densely populated 7. deeply involved 8. rarely visited 9. independently governed

10. specially organized 11. delicately fashioned 12. recently decorated 13. greatly influenced 14. dramatically changed 15. completely restored 16. never stopped 17. eventually led 18. accurately informed

Ex. 19. Read the text and underline the modifies with the adjectives, trying to analyze their meaning.

The Golden Ring is a chain of small ancient towns closely situated to the North and East of Moscow. Suzdal’, Vladimir, Yaroslavl’, Kostroma and others once played an important, spiritual, and cultural role in ancient Russia. Now it is an extremely popular tourist route through the Russian provinces. Depending on the time available, you can choose short - one or two days - specially organized trips to the main points: Sergiev Posad or Vladimir and Suzdal'. But if you would like to examine thoroughly all the towns of the Golden Ring - and there are more than twenty of them - it will take you nearly a fortnight.

The Golden Ring is not only a collection of well preservedarchitecture masterpieces and charming landscapes of the middle Russia offered a host of well restored and abandoned churches, monasteries and fortresses, rich museums and wooden villages. It is also an opportunity to get thoroughly acquainted with the life of Russian provinces, deeply unhurried and calm, absolutely unspoiled by the bustle (= суета) of big cities. For example, nobody in a small town gets surprised or upset if a herd [= стадо] of cattle blocks the traffic along the central street.

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