Contoh:
- Very beautiful (Sangat cantik)
- Really interesting (Benar-benar menarik)
- Quite good (Cukup baik, sungguh baik)
- Absolutely expensive (Sungguh mahal)
- Incredibly difficult (Luar biasa sulitnya)
- Amazingly clever (Luar biasa pintar)
- Terribly steep (sangat curam, amat sangat curam)
Ada beberapa Adjectives yang biasanya tidak memerlukan intensifier "very". Kata-kata sifat tersebut adalah:
- Tiny (sangat kurus)
- Enormous (sangat besar)
- Huge (sangat besar)
- Brilliant (sangat pintar)
- Delicious (sangat enak)
- Awful (mengerikan)
- Excellent (sangat baik)
Jika kata very digunakan bukan berarti grammarnya salah. Intensifier lainnya seperty exceptionally, absolutely, really, totally, quite, dan yang lainnya kecuali very dapat digunakan.
Contoh:
- Amazingly brilliant
- Absolutely delicious
- Quite awful
- Totally excellent
- Really huge
Beberapa intensifiers yang digunakan untuk adjectives tertentu.
- Seriously
- Dangerously
- Deeply
- Highly
- Bitterly
- Desperately
Contoh-contoh kalimat berikut akan bisa memperjelas maknanya.
- She is seriously ill. (Dia menderita sakit serius.)
- The slope is dangerously steep. (Lereng itu curam membahayakan.)
- Mira was deeply disappointed. (Mira amat sangat kecewa.)
- The weather at night here is bitterly cold. (..........amat dingin)
- They are highly brilliant students. (Mereka adalah siswa yang amat sangat brilian.)
Latihan
Isilah titik-titik dalam kalimat-kalimat berikut dengan VERY, AMAZINGLY, TOTALLY, ABSOLUTELY, INCREDIBLY, QUITE.
- Lutfi is........................brilliant. He passed the exams with flying color.
- The city is .................beautiful. I think I may want to come back here again next time.
- It's such a ...............huge house. How many people lives in the house?
- Honestly, I was ............... tired when we came home last night.
- The food is .................delicious.