INTENSIFIERS

True or false? An intensifier is a word that strengthens or weakens another word (typically the word immediately to its right).

• True

• False

True or false? An intensifier has no real meaning and can usually be removed from the sentence.

• True

• False

Select the intensifer.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.  (Confucius)

• Life

• making

• really

• simple

• insist

True or false?

An intensifier always strengthens the word it modifies.

• True

• False

Select the intensifer.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to write about real people. (Kristin  Gore)

(a)  

Select the sentence with an intensifier.

• A. The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous. (David Icke)

• B. Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. (Steve Carell)

Select the sentence with an intensifier.

• A. Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. (Henry Rollins)

• B. Some folks look at me and see a swagger, which in Texas is called walking. (George W Bush)

Select the sentence with an intensifier.

• B. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

• A. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. (Joseph Conrad)

Select the sentence with an intensifier that provides strength.

• A. I don't need much money. I lead a fairly simple life. (Karl Pilkington)

• B. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. (Steve Jobs)

True or false?

In the quotation below, the intensifier dreadfully weakens the word boring.Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring. (Nate Silver)

• True

• False