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You will have seen extreme adjectives with intensifying adverbs such as, "totally appalled" or "absolutely amazed", but there is another class of adjective intensifier which is specific to the adjective it intensifies. In the exercise below, you can see, "idle" meaning 'lazy'. The intensifier for "idle" is "bone". "Bone idle" means very or totally idle.
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Match the adjectives to the words which intensify their meaning.
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- hot
- naked
- new
- open / awake
- asleep
- wet
- cold / deaf
- dry / idle
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boiling
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stark
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brand
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wide
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fast
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soaking
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stone
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bone
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Look at the following words and decide which pairs collocate. Then put the word pairs in the mini-dialogues.-
stone pig(x2) dead hot blind cold pitch ignorant(x2) shit* drunk piping crystal easy black scared clear Ben: He couldn't have been that over the limit – When I spoke to him, he seemed pretty sober.
Dave: You what? sober? Come off it! He was (blind) (drunk) all evening!Jane: I can't believe how difficult that was. Some of the questions were almost impossible.
Tim: Almost impossible? You must be kidding! It was (dead) (easy)!Alex: Look, all I'm saying is that I could clearly make out it was him who took the money.
Ian: Clearly make out it was him? No way! It was (pitch) (black) in there! It could've been anyone.Sue: You should've seen him. He just stood there, fearless.
Mike: Fearless? You're having a laugh! (shit) (scared) more like!Waiter: The chef insists the soup was (piping) (hot) when it left the kitchen.
Customer: Piping hot? Is this some kind of joke? It's (stone) (cold)!Jeff: I thought the bass was a bit muffled, and the vocals got drowned out by the drums.
Steve: Drowned out? What are you on about? It was perfect! (crystal) (clear)!May: I'm never gonna speak to Stuart again. He's just a (pig) (ignorant) bastard*!
**This is very informal and can be offensive!
Alice: (Pig) (ignorant)? Stuart? Oh dear, I think you'd better tell me all about it. What happened?
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Think of a word to intensify the following adjectives, then click to see the correct intensifier. (Links open in new window.)
Notice how in the matching exercise, there were no hyphens (-) to connect the words. Why not? Check again with the definition of ‘_____-cheap’ to see the answer.