INTENSIFIERS & DOWNTONERS

Intensifiers and Downtoners are adverbs

• TRUE

• FALSE

Intensifiers are ONLY used to add emphasis or increase the intensity of other adverbs

• TRUE

• FALSE

Intensifiers are used to add emphasis or increase the intensity of other adjectives and adverbs

• true

• false

Downtoners are divided into two categories: Maximisers and Boosters

• TRUE

• FALSE

INTENSIFIERS are divided into two categories: Maximisers and Boosters

• TRUE

• FALSE

Completely, absolutely, perfectly, totally, fully and entirely are BOOSTERS.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Completely, absolutely, perfectly, totally, fully and entirely are MAXIMISERS.

• TRUE

• FALSE

MAXIMISERS' function: Superlative intensification

• TRUE

• FALSE

If we omit MAXIMISERS, the sentence makes sense

• TRUE

• FALSE

MAXIMISERS can't be easily exchanged with each other

• TRUE

• FALSE