GRADABLE AND NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES | English with GRAMMAR MAN

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The focus of today’s lesson is on how to correctly use adjectives with modifiers, and I’m also going to help you to expand your descriptive vocabulary.

There are two types of adjectives.
We have gradable, and non-gradable adjectives.

Some common examples of gradable adjectives include:
old, small, big, hungry, beautiful, embarrassed, etc.

Some common non-gradable adjectives, include:
ancient, enormous, gorgeous/stunning, thrilled, terrified, delicious, etc.

All that gradable/un-gradable means is that gradable adjectives can be measured, we can say how cold, or how tall, or how hot something is. He is quite tall, he is very tall, he is extremely tall. We can change the level of tallness by adding certain modifying words, the most common include the following:
a bit/slightly,
quite/rather/fairly,
very/really,
extremely, incredibly

With non-gradable adjectives, we cannot modify in the same way. We cannot change the level. We can’t change the degree of the adjective. We cannot say something is a little bit enormous, or very enormous, or extremely enormous.
We can add emphasis, and say it is absolutely enormous, but we can’t answer the question ‘how enormous is it’. There isn’t a range.

The way we modify these non-gradable adjectives is we can add emphasis using these common adverbs here:
absolutely,
completely,
totally,
utterly,
really,
exceptionally, etc.

So, for example, you might say:
This rock is really ancient, or This cake is absolutely delicious, or she is utterly terrified of snakes.
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