ADVERBS OF

INTENSITY
Day 1
 She has almost finished.
Which is the verb in the sentence?

finished
What word describe or modify the verb finished?

almost
 He was just leaving.
Which is the verb in the sentence?

leaving
What word describe or modify the verb leaving?

just
 The water was extremely cold.
What word describe or modify water?

Cold
How cold is the water?

extremely
 The movie is quite interesting.
What word describe or modify movie?

interesting
How interesting is the movie?

quite
 You are walking too slowly.
Which is the verb in the sentence?

walking
What word describe or modify the verb walking?
slowly
What word describe or modify the adverb slowly?
too
 You are running fast enough.
Which is the verb in the sentence?

running
What word describe or modify the verb running?
fast
What word describe or modify the adverb fast?
enough
 Adverbs of Intensity/ Degree
tell us the strength or of something that happens.
Basically they answer the sort of question that asks
how much or how little.
They normally go before the verb, adjective or
adverb which they modify.
Activity 1: Underline the adverb of intensity in the given
sentences.

1. The coronavirus is very serious.

2. I have a bit enough money for food.
3. Today’s number of cases is slightly fewer than yesterday.
4. She finished the day totally protected.
5. The guidelines on the different forms of community
quarantine are pretty good.
ADVERBS OF
INTENSITY
Day 2
Activity 3: Choose the adverb of intensity that will complete each sentence.
ADVERBS OF
INTENSITY
Day 3
Activity 5: TRUE OR FALSE
TRU
________1.Adverbs
E of degree modify nouns, verbs, and adverbs.
TRU
E
________2.They
FALS
answer the question “How much or “to what extent”

E
________3. They are usually formed by adding the suffix -ed.
TRU
E
________4.
TRU
Sometimes, seldom and never are adverbs of intensity.

E
________5.
TRU With adjectives, the adverb of intensity goes before the adjective.

E
________6.
TRU With adverbs as well, the adverb of degree goes before the adverb.

E
________7. Adverb of intensity can make the meaning of adverb or adjective stronger
orTRU
weaker.
E
________8. Quite and fairly are used for a favorable comment.
Activity 6: Rearrange the words to form meaningful sentences with adverbs
of intensity.

1. rains/a lot/It/every/June/ month/of

It rains a lot every month of June.
2. coffee/is/hot/too/the
The coffee is too hot.
3. work/he/enough/didn’t/pass/exam/to/the
He didn’t work hard enough to pass the exam.
4. beautiful/was/dress/ the/very
The dress was very beautiful.
5. Philippines/hot/very/summer/in/the/is
Summer is very hot in the Philippines.
Activity 7: Write short sentences using the adverbs of
intensity listed in the box.
very totally absolutely completely
truly
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