Gradable and ungradable adjectives:
Use:
Gradable adjectives can be used with adverbs such as very or extremely to say that a thing or person has more or less of a particular quality. Ungradable adjectives themselves imply ‘to a large degree’ and are seldom used with these adverbs. Instead, we can use adverbs such as absolutely or totally.
• Our teacher gave us a completely impossible problem to solve.
• She was extremely rich.
Notice that not all the adverbs given can go with all the adjectives given. For example, we wouldn’t usually say ‘completely essential’. Really and pretty can be used with both gradable and ungradable adjectives.
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