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    The document discusses logical ordering of adjectives from least to most extreme, including fairly cold, quite cold, cold, very cold, and extremely cold. It also discusses the use of adverbs like fairly, quite, and really as downtoners or intensifiers. While ungradable adjectives like "freezing" cannot be intensified, absolutes like absolutely, completely, and utterly can modify ungradable adjectives to imply absoluteness. Comparisons can be modified using words indicating much/a lot/far difference, slightly/little/bit difference, exactly/more or less/roughly no difference, or increasing with modifiers like "the harder/earlier".

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    The document discusses logical ordering of adjectives from least to most extreme, including fairly cold, quite cold, cold, very cold, and extremely cold. It also discusses the use of adverbs like fairly, quite, and really as downtoners or intensifiers. While ungradable adjectives like "freezing" cannot be intensified, absolutes like absolutely, completely, and utterly can modify ungradable adjectives to imply absoluteness. Comparisons can be modified using words indicating much/a lot/far difference, slightly/little/bit difference, exactly/more or less/roughly no difference, or increasing with modifiers like "the harder/earlier".

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    Modifiying Adjectives and Com Par Ions

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    The document discusses logical ordering of adjectives from least to most extreme, including fairly cold, quite cold, cold, very cold, and extremely cold. It also discusses the use of adverbs like fairly, quite, and really as downtoners or intensifiers. While ungradable adjectives like "freezing" cannot be intensified, absolutes like absolutely, completely, and utterly can modify ungradable adjectives to imply absoluteness. Comparisons can be modified using words indicating much/a lot/far difference, slightly/little/bit difference, exactly/more or less/roughly no difference, or increasing with modifiers like "the harder/earlier".

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    LOGICAL ORDER

    fairly cold
    quite/rather cold
    cold
    very cold
    extremely cold
    FREEZING (non-gradable adjective)
    CHOICE OF ADVERBS

    Extremely
    Intensifiers Very
    Really

    Adverbs

    Fairly
    Quite
    Downtoners Rather
    QUITE

    Consider the following two sentences:

    She was quite tired


    Downtoner

    She was quite exhausted


    Absoluteness
    CAN WE INTENSIFY UNGRADABLE ADJECTIVES?

    Yes. It can be done with intensifiers implying


    absoluteness
    absolutely, completely, totally, utterly
    I was utterly terrified when he told me I
    would lose my house.
    This animal is completely dead.
    MODIFYING COMPARISONS: A BIG DIFFERENCE

    much, a lot, far

    London is much more expensive than Rome

    She is a lot richer than me

    Your essay is far better than mine


    MODIFYING COMPARISONS: A SMALL
    DIFFERENCE
    Slightly, a little, a bit, not much

    Your mark was slightly better than Peter’s

    This jumper is a little more expensive than the


    red one.

    My ticket was not much easier to get than yours.


    MODIFYING COMPARISONS: NO DIFFERENCE

    Exactly, more or less, roughly

    He is exactly the same age as me

    The amount of water needed for this recipe is


    roughly the same
    MODIFIYING COMPARISONS: INCREASING

    The harder you try to go up the ladder, the


    better for your career.

    The earlier you arrive, the cheaper tickets


    are.

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