Urgent help needed concerning BASE and EXTREME adjectives

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Julijanik

#100573 Tue, 17 May 05 06:08 PM

Hello everybody!!!

I need you help with this topic. "Base and extreme adjectives meaning and collocabilyty"
I have to write 15 pages of theory, but unfortunately have no idea where to ger the material for that... no info at all. Maybe you know or have some info on this topic???! or at least have something to tell about this. I myself have almost no idea what to write

thanks a lot

Julija

Julijanik

Joined on Tue, May 17 2005

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Mister Micawber

#101909 Sun, 22 May 05 01:51 PM

There's not much on the WWW either-- all I found were a few definitions and lots of ESL exercises. I couldn't write 15 pages on the topic, that's for sure.

(For readers' benefit:

Normal and strong (extreme) adjectives

Some adjectives are normal or base adjectives (good, bad, dirty, pretty etc).
Other adjectives are strong or extreme) adjectives (fantastic, awful, filthy, beautiful etc).

We can only use "absolutely" with a strong adjective e.g. "absolutely fantastic."
We can only use "very" with a base adjective e.g. "very good."
"Very fantastic" or "absolutely good" are incorrect. However we can use "really" with a base or strong adjective.)

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