Luyện ngữ pháp - English Collocations in Use - Intermediate - (Unit 2: Grammatical aspects of collocations)


Intensifying adverbs

In English there are lots of other ways of saying very or very much. For example, we can use words such as highly, utterly, bitterly, deeply. These alternatives collocate strongly with specific words, and other combinations often sound unnatural.

Highly

collocations comments
(un)likely unusual successful competitive profitable effective controversial recommended Highly is used with some words (likely, unusual). With the exception of highly controversial it usually combines with very words. Extremely can also be used with all the opposite adjectives except recommended.

It is highly unlikely that I’ll finish my work on time.
Julia’s highly unusual behaviour began to worry her parents.

- Lesson 6: B. Absolutely, utterly


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