Some '-ly' intensifiers: typical combinations

absolutely delicious, I absolutely love peaches amazingly good at, amazingly well awfully nice, do something awfully well badly mistaken, I badly want beautifully simple, beautifully organized bitterly cold bitterly disappointed brilliantly clever, brilliantly designed completely successful, completely finished considerably better considerably cheaper cruelly disappointed, cruelly afflicted dangerously ill, dangerously wounded dearly loved, I d dearly like to deeply sorry, deeply hurt definitely mistaken I'm definitely leaving dreadfully late dreadfully annoyed entirely irresponsible, I entirely agree (e)specially nice, I (e)specially enjoyed exceedingly good, do it exceedingly badly extremely interesting, extremely surprised fearfully boring, fearfully confused fully satisfied, I fully appreciate gravely ill gravely worried greatly impressed, I greatly appreciate hideously ugly, hideously expensive highly intelligent, I highly disapprove hopelessly badly, hopelessly confused horribly painful, horribly wounded immensely rich, I was immensely pleased incredibly beautiful, incredibly surprised intensely cold, intensely concerned keenly competitive, keenly interested


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largely compatible, largely altered lightly salted, lightly cooked literally amazing, he literally believes madly exciting, they clapped madly mortally ill, mortally offended outstandingly good/well/original painfully shy, painfully embarrassed particularly clever, I particularly enjoyed perfectly sweet, I perfectly understand pleasantly agreeable, pleasantly surprised richly deserved, richly rewarded seriously upset, seriously depressed severely ill, severely criticized sharply accurate, sharply critical simply wonderful, I simply love strikingly attractive, strikingly obvious superbly fit, superbly cooked terribly rude, drive terribly fast thoroughly ted-up, I thoroughly enjoyed totally idiotic, I totally agree utterly stupid, I utterly agree violently ill, violently opposed to wonderfully clever, do it wonderfully well

Appendix 17 [>7.57] Some viewpoint adverbs

17.1 = 'I'm sure of the facts': e g

actually, as a matter of fact, certainly, clearly, definitely, honestly, in actual fact, naturally, obviously, really, strictly speaking

17.2 = I'm less sure of myself/the facts':

apparently, arguably, as far as I know, at a guess, by all accounts, evidently, maybe, perhaps, possibly, probably, quite likely

17.3 = 'I'm making a generalization': e g

as a (general) rule, basically, by and large, for the most part, in general, in principle, in a way, normally, on the whole, to a great extent

17.4 = 'I'm going to be brief: e g

anyhow, briefly, in brief, in effect, in a few words, in short, to put it simply

17.5 = 'I'm expressing my opinion': e g

as far as I'm concerned, frankly (speaking), in my opinion, in my view, personally I think, in all frankness, in all honesty, to put it bluntly

17.6 = 'I don't want you to repeat this': e g

between ourselves, between you and me, confidentially, in strict confidence

17.7 = 'You won't believe this': e g

amazingly, astonishingly, curiously, funnily enough, incredibly, oddly enough, strangely, surprisingly, to my amazement, to my surprise

17.8 = 'It's just as I expected': e g

characteristically, inevitably, logically, naturally, needless to say, not surprisingly, of course, plainly, predictably, typically

17.9 = 'I'm pleased/I'm not pleased': e g

agreeably, annoymgly foolishly, fortunately, happily, ideally, interestingly, luckily, mercifully, preferably, regrettably, sadly, unfortunately, unhappily, unwisely, wisely


Appendix 18 [> 1.17,7.58] Connecting words and phrases


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