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Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives
A grammar-oriented phrasebook focused on correctly using adjectives. Do you know that each adjective can be graded with using only proper combinations? For example: "extremely risky, utterly terrifying, super busy, quite tasty, incredibly elitist, relatively steady, deeply inacurate" etc.
- I’m 69 later this year — and I’ve had a pretty good run.
- But as utterly terrifying as Jaws has been made out to be, it’s also one of the most visually stimulating spectacles one could ever witness
- It’s hard. I am super busy the entire time
- The term ‘animal rights’ has become largely meaningless.
- And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can’t-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative.
- size and thickness of either of these eReaders
- Neither the Jones nor the Smiths are coming to the party.
- Neither wind, nor rain, nor polar vortex can stop selfies
- Killing and destruction are gathering pace, but neither side is winning
- Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
- Knowing that your website is in beta testing mode, I am hesitant to present this tool to my boss
- size and thickness of either of these eReaders
- Neither the Jones nor the Smiths are coming to the party.
- Neither wind, nor rain, nor polar vortex can stop selfies
- Killing and destruction are gathering pace, but neither side is winning
- 1. We wish you to know what a grievous cause has led us to Your country, what peril threatening you and all the faithful has brought us
- 1. race chosen and beloved by Godas shines forth in very many of your works set apart from all nations by the situation of your country, as well as by your catholic faith and the honor of the holy church!
- 1. To you our discourse is addressed and for you our exhortation is intended.
- Truly useful ideas don't arise from out of the ether or through fancy techniques
- Obama was acutely aware that a one-off strike, could possibly have served as a convincing brush-back pitch
- The company navigates largely uncharted waters for traditional economic strictures
- Shervin, the youngest of three, would read for hours in the bathroom, a quiet oasis in his home.
- the difference between an intrepid moon shot and a misguided fantasy project often hinges entirely on the daredevil behind it
typical idioms (ANGER and HAPPINESS)
TO GO BANANAS - (to get very angry) MAKE THE AIR TURN BLUE - (to get furious) TO GO UP IN THE AIR (to get furious) DRIVE SOMEONE UP THE WALL (make someone to get very angry) TO BE ON CLOUD NINE - (to be very happy)