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Intensifying adverbs

Intensifying adverbs

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Professional Development

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Geraldine Angelica Fonseca Pineda

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​I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.

​What's the use of SO in the previous sentence?

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Multiple Choice

​What's the use of SO in the previous sentence?

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To introduce a new topic

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To show a consequence

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To give extra emphasis on something

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To help the reader understand a specific idea

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Open Ended

Taking into account the following examples, which parts of the speech go after SO?

​I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.

She plays the piano so well

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Can you identify the mistake in the previous sentence?

​They are such a professionals

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Open Ended

​They are such a professionals

Can you identify the mistake in the previous sentence? Explain it!

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Multiple Select

Taking into account the previous sentence and the mistake you identify, from the following options,which would be the correct rules?

​They are such a professionals

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Add the article a/an before singular countable nouns

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Add the article a/an before singular uncountable nouns

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Do not use article a/an before plural nouns

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Some plural nouns can go after the articles a/an

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Gradable adjectives:

We can have different levels of that quality.

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Multiple Choice

Read the next sentence. Identify the intensifying adverb, the word it intensifies and the type of word:

- I'm very pleased to welcome the famous singer Wilfrido Vargas

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- Very

- Pleased

- Verb

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- Very

- Welcome

- Famous singer

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- Pleased

- famous singer

- Adjective

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- Very

- Pleased

- Adjective

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These adjectives describe absolute or extreme qualities.

Non-gradable adjectives

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Multiple Choice

Analyze the following parts of adjective intensification. Identify the sentence that exemplifies those parts:

- Non-gradable adverb

- Non-gradable Adjective

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People who are incredibly strong can lift heavy weights

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She was quite angry when she found out.

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I must say some of them are absolutely stunning

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It can be really freezing in winter.

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​I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.

​What's the use of SO in the previous sentence?

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