Unit 5

Very goes before an adverb or adjective to make it stronger.
Example:
• The girl was very beautiful. (adjective)
• He worked very quickly. (adverb)
If we wantto make a negative form of an adjective or adverb, we can use a word of opposite meaning, or not very.
Example:
• The girl was ugly OR The girl was not verybeautiful
• He worked slowly OR He didn't work very quickly.
BE CAREFUL! There is a big difference between too and very.
• Very expresses a fact:
He speaks veryquickly.
• Too suggests there is a problem:
He speaks too quickly (for me to understand).
KINDS OF ADVERBS
ADVERBS OF DEGREE
Adverbs of degree tell usabout the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb.
Common adverbs of degree:
Almost, nearly, quite, just, too, enough, hardly, scarcely, completely,very, extremely.
Adverbs of degree are usually placed:
1. before the adjective or adverb they are modifying:
e.g. The water was extremely cold.
2. beforethe main verb:
e.g. He was just leaving.
3. She has almost finished.
Examples:
• She doesn't quite know what she'll do after university.
• They arecompletely exhausted from the trip.
• I am too tired to go out tonight.
• He hardly noticed what she was saying.
Formal Characteristics of Adverbs
From ourexamples above, you can see that many adverbs end in -ly. More precisely, they are formed by adding -ly to an adjective:  
  
  
|Adjective |slow |quick|soft |sudden |gradual |
|Adverb |slowly |quickly |softly |suddenly |gradually |