hi there how are you today this is Marc I'm doing great thanks for asking I have
six examples with adverbs of degree so let's take a look at them they enjoyed
the party immensely John could really give me a hand with this our trip to
Australia was what we expected altogether I absolutely agree with you we
sometimes need to work awfully hard if you eat that it won't help you lose
weight much in this lesson we're going to look at as I said adverbs of degree
so stay tuned on past lessons I talked about adverbs of frequency if you want
to watch that lesson you may click here this time though I want to talk about
adverbs of degree and when do we use them we use them when you wish to give
more information about the magnitude of an action of a verb or the degree to
which an action is done and how do we form them okay we usually form them by
adding -LY to an adjective for example fair is the adjective fairly is the
adverb huge is the adjective hugely is the adverb large is the adjective
largely is the other entire entirely etc etc however there are exceptions
sometimes an adjective stays the same to become an adverb for example hard
hard and not hardly attention hard-hard half-half almost an adjective almost an
adverb very stays the same very-very well-well just-just etc there are many
exceptions most importantly how do we use adverbs of degree
the first rule use them in the usual positions of adjuncts what are adjuncts
adjuncts are optional elements or of secondary importance in a sentence let's
look at my introductory example they enjoyed the party immensely immensely
is at the end of the sentence or the clause we loved lady D. dearly so is always at
the end of the clause so it's secondary in importance in the sentence we do not use
the adverbs of degree at the beginning of the sentence okay never the
second rule of how to use adverbs of degree is that some of them like almost
largely nearly really virtually etc are almost always almost always used in
front of the main verb almost always why I will tell you in a minute the first
example was John could really give me a hand with this so here which could or
give is the verb yes give that's the main verb so it goes before give so John
could really give me a hand with this could is a modal verb so the second and
this will explain why almost always they are largely responsible for that
okay largely is the adverb of degree and the verb the main verb here can you see
it yes the verb to be they are largely we don't say they largely are they are
largely responsible for that and so this this is the exception we put the verb
to be before the adverb of degree okay so like
I said in my rule they are almost always used in front of the main verb but the
verb to be so I'm going to erase this and I'm going to look at other points on
how to use the adverbs of degree so we're back with the rest of the rules
other adverbs of degree like outright well somehow somewhat hard altogether
are almost always used after the main verb
just like my introductory example our trip to Australia was what we expected
altogether here the main verb is expect so altogether goes at the end of
the sentence in this case and after the main verb
another example my explanation was somewhat complicated for some students
and here like I said before the verb to be is special but but the adverb of
degree goes always after the main verb and in this case the verb to be my
explanation was somewhat complicated for some students now let's take a look at
the other rule when you want to add emphasis to an action of a verb use just
quite absolutely simply and totally so let's take
look at the example I absolutely agree with you so we have absolutely and agree
here is the main verb so it is placed before the main verb in this case
or she totally understood the point understand is the main verb and the
adverb goes before the main verb in this case she totally understood the point we
go on the fifth rule sometimes we use some adverbs of degree in front of other
adverbs they are called sub-modifiers for example like my introductory example
we sometimes need to work awfully hard hard is the adverb and I added a
sub-modifier which is another adverb awfully hard so I wanted to modify the
adverb hard right so I added awfully awfully hard
another example her flatmates got on extremely well so well is the adverb and
here extremely well is the sub-modifier so extremely well how do they get on
extremely well the sixth rule there are adverbs of degree like much a bit most
and worst for example that can be used in negative sentences like my example if
you eat that it won't help you lose weight much so we have if you eat not
for example a cake or ice cream it won't it will not help you lose weight much
much here is the adverb of degree and this is a
negative clause it won't help you lose weight much and so that's why I added
much another example Sue doesn't like his attitude a bit so the negative here
is doesn't like she doesn't like his attitude he's a very nasty boy
for example so a bit is the adverb of degree that I added in this in this
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