grading adverbs | a bit, dreadfully, extremaly, hugely, immensely, intensely, rather, reasonably, slightly,very-co to? | |
gradable adjectives | angry, big, busy, clever, common, deep, fast, friendly, happy, important, low - co to? | |
gradable adjectives | popular, quiet, rich, strong, weak, young - co to? | |
non-grading adverbs | absolutely, completely, entirely, perfectly, practically, simply, totally, utterly, virtually-co to? | |
non-grading adverbs | almost, exclusively, fully, largely, mainly, nearly, primarily - co to? | |
non-gradable adjectives | awful, excellent, huge, impossible, superb, terrible - co to? | |
non-gradable adjectives | domestic, environmental, unknown, unique - co to? | |
fairly | to quite a large degree, but usually less than "very" | |
really | "very (much)" | |
pretty | similar to "fairly", used in informal contex | |
behaved | well- | |
growing | fast- | |
made | ready- | |
serving | longest- | |
linked | tree- | |
making | money- | |
based | London- | |
born | Paris- | |
built | brick- | |
going | easy- | |
keeping | peace- | |
lasting | long- | |
raising | hair- | |
reaching | far- | |
resourced | well- | |
spoken | soft- | |
wracking | nerve- | |
able, careful,curious, difficult, easy, free, good, hard, impossible, inclined, | adjective + to - infinitive (1) | |
nice, prepared, ready, welcome, willing | adjective + to - infinitive (2) | |
busy, awaful, awkward, bad, good, guilty, terrible | adjective + - ing | |
afraid, alarmed, amazed, angry, annoyed, angry, ashamed, astonished, aware | adjective + that-clause (1) | |
concerned, disappointed, glad, happy, pleased, shocked | adjective + that-clause (2) | |
sorry, upset, worried, certain, confident, positive, sure | adjective + that-clause (3) | |
afraid, unaware, uncertain, doubtful, unsure, worried | adjective + wh-clause | |
crazy, foolish, mad, stupid | adjective + to - infinitive or - ing | |
annoying, awkward, easy, good, interesting, lovely, simple, terrific, wonderful | in informal speech we can use an -ing form instead of a to-inf after... | |