modifiers with gradable and ungradable adjectives

WRITE THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSIONS IN

LOGICAL ORDER

Extremely cold, cold, quite cold, very Extremely cold, cold, quite cold, very Extremely cold, cold, quite cold, very Extremely cold, cold, quite cold, very

cold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly coldcold, fairly cold

LOGICAL ORDER

fairly coldfairly coldfairly coldfairly cold

quite/rather coldquite/rather coldquite/rather coldquite/rather cold

coldcoldcoldcold

very coldvery coldvery coldvery coldvery coldvery coldvery coldvery cold

extremely coldextremely coldextremely coldextremely cold

FREEZINGFREEZINGFREEZINGFREEZING (non-gradable adjective)

CHOICE OF ADVERBS

AdverbsAdverbsAdverbsAdverbs

IntensifiersIntensifiersIntensifiersIntensifiersExtremelyExtremelyExtremelyExtremely

VeryVeryVeryVery

ReallyReallyReallyReally

AdverbsAdverbsAdverbsAdverbs

DowntonersDowntonersDowntonersDowntoners

FairlyFairlyFairlyFairly

QuiteQuiteQuiteQuite

RatherRatherRatherRather

QUITE

Consider the following two sentences:

She was quitequitequitequite tired

DowntonerDowntonerDowntonerDowntoner

She was quitequitequitequite exhausted

AbsolutenessAbsolutenessAbsolutenessAbsoluteness

CAN WE INTENSIFY UNGRADABLE ADJECTIVES?

Yes. It can be done with intensifiers implying

absoluteness

absolutely, completely, totally, utterlyabsolutely, completely, totally, utterlyabsolutely, completely, totally, utterlyabsolutely, completely, totally, utterly

I was utterlyutterlyutterlyutterly terrified when he told me I I was utterlyutterlyutterlyutterly terrified when he told me I

would lose my house.

This animal is completelycompletelycompletelycompletely dead.