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... |