Hello welcome to easy English at home YouTube channel today I'm gonna teach
you how to use weak adjectives and strong adjectives there are different
kinds of adjectives today's focus will be on weak adjectives they're also
called as gradable adjectives and the strong ones they're also called as none
gradable adjectives right we have a list of 15 very common ones here right we
have good tired small big hungry dirty angry funny cold hot tasty sure happy
surprised and scared we can use modifiers to make the meaning of these
adjectives stronger modifiers like like the ones here for example we can say
very good or you can just say good if you want to make the meaning stronger
you use the modifier you say very good or you can say completely let's say
completely sure I'm completely sure or you can say slightly big or really funny
so these adjectives the weak ones definitely need a modifier to have a
stronger meaning well the other option you have is to learn the strong
adjectives which already means very good for example you can say fantastic
instead of saying very good you can say fantastic or tired well you can say very
tired or you can simply say exhausted
these adjectives are strong say they don't need modifiers to make their
meaning stronger small the strong adjective form would be tiny
big you can say what huge or you can say enormous or gigantic is another word
hungry starving you can say I'm starving or you can say I'm very hungry
next one dirty the strong adjective 1 is filthy
ok angry or you can say very angry or you can say what furious I'm furious
which means I'm very angry funny hilarious
very funny hilarious cold so we're looking into freezing this
time freezing which means very cold hot the Thrun adjective form is boiling and
for tasty you can say delicious delicious very tasty for sure you can
say positive I'm positive about it it means I'm very sure positive okay for
happy you can say delighted delighted okay for surprised we have the word
amazed okay and the last one for the word scared you can say terrified or
horrified terrified if you're terrified that means you're very scared right so
these are the strong adjectives and if you really want to work on the meaning
of the strong adjectives and make them stronger than they already are you can
only use strong modifiers not these ones here you need strong modifiers modifiers
like strong modifiers see we just have a couple of them the
first one is absolutely so you can say absolutely exhausted or it is absolutely
hilarious it's alright or you can say utterly completely right
the meaning and you look at it so you can say utterly starving utterly filthy
utterly furious right and the last one is really as you look at it goes both
ways so the modifier really can be used with strong adjectives and the weak ones
the weak ones and that's the only one you know that you can use this way so
that's how strong adjectives work don't forget you can use them with strong
modifiers not these ones right so the meaning already is very strong
alright let's practice look at the pictures and answer my questions with a
yes at all times picture one is the water cold yes
it's freezing picture two was the party good yes it was fantastic picture three
are you tired yes I am exhausted picture pho is this a big house yes it is
enormous picture five are you sure yes I'm positive
picture six is it a hot day yes it's boiling picture seven is she surprised
yes she's amazed picture eight are they
hungry yes they're starving
are you ready for further practice I've got eight short dialogues here for you
and in each dialogue I want you to focus on the answer and choose the correct
modifier looking at the adjectives right at the end okay so number one are you
angry about the keys I lost yes I'm a bit or absolutely furious
which one furious is a strong adjectives so you need to say absolutely furious
yeah look at number two was your day at work hard yes it was
look this is the adjective exhausting so you can say really exhausting yeah
slightly goes with the weak adjectives three is your school big no it is which
one there you are utterly tiny tiny is a
strong adjectives so it goes with a strong modifier utterly tiny yeah all
right four do you have cold winters in Turkey yes yes it is right it is the
adjective is cold so I need to say completely cold okay completely cold
especially in January right are you hungry
yes I am starving yeah so which one I am really starving it's strong adjectives
again remember and six do you like Turkish baklava yes it is
delicious absolutely delicious okay number seven are you sure you lock
the door yes I'm absolutely positive remember positive is a strong adjectives
again so do you find mr. bean funny yes I think he is really
hilarious so here another strong adjectives good job everybody let's have
a look at today's key words and phrases we have learned a couple of strong
adjectives like fantastic exhausted tiny enormous huge gigantic starving filthy
furious hilarious freezing boiling delicious positive delighted amazed
terrified horrified we also learned that strong adjectives cannot be used with
some modifiers like very completely quite a bit and slightly the only
modifiers we can use with strong adjectives are absolutely utterly and
really thank you for watching you can find the practice files for this lesson
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