Intensifiers and Downtoners in English - Give power to your adjectives and adverbs!

In this lesson, learn about intensifiers and downtoners or mitigators to give more power and emotion to your writing and speaking in English. You need to learn about this because it adds a level of sophistication to your English, it adds more emotion and power to what you say and can impress in both speaking and writing.
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This is really helpful for teaching students as the first foreign language, and I am incredibly thankful for this wonderful sharing..

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it was a quite long day, it was a really long day, it was a very long day. thanks for the lesson, it was extremely useful, i am really grateful

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Great use of intensifiers! Well done!

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It was an extremely long day. It was a quite long day. It was a rather long day. Thanks for the video.

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Great sentences! Well done!

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[@NamNguyenVan-bz4wx]

Hello Sarah, my teacher! It's nice to see you again for a quite long time. Than you for the interesting lesson. The following is my answer. 1. It was an incredibly long day! 2. It was quite a long day. 3. It was not at all a long day. I hope my answer is correct. See you very soon, Sarah. Take care!

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Hi Nam, great answers! Just a couple of really small things. It was AN incredibly long day! It was quite a long day. Well done!

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[@tani_shi9919]

Hello, Sarah. Many thanks for your sharing. My answers are: - weaken strength: It was a fairly long day; It was a quite long day; It was a rather long day; It was an at all long day (is it right?); - moderate/medium: It was somewhat a long day; - real punch: It was an insanely long day.

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Hi Tani_shi, Great sentences! well done! As for at all, you have to use it in a negative sentence. It wasn't at all a long day. I hope that helps!

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[@maryamtavasoliyan1821]

it's been really good. tanks a lot... my try: It was an extremely long day.(stronger) It was a pretty long day.(weaker)a

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Great! Well done!

[@johnlomi]

It was a fairly long day. It was a mildly long day. It was an insanely long day. Hi,Sarah. That's my answers. Warm regards from Indonesia.

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Hi J.J.L. great use of intensifiers! Well done!

[@Madhugorai708]

Would you please give us gradable & non- gradable adjectives list ? Thanks!

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Madhu, sorry it's take so long to get back to you. I don't really have a list as such but found this online: GRADABLE ADJECTIVES NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES big huge, enormous small tiny tired exhausted hungry starving excited thrilled afraid terrified, petrified warm, hot boiling, scorching cool, cold freezing good great, awesome bad terrible, awful old ancient angry furious interesting fascinating beautiful gorgeous dirty filthy I hope that helps!

[@AS-xo4ne]

Hi, This video is very helpful for me. Please make a video on, use of "is to, am to, are to" it is very confusing.

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Great suggestion! I will put it on my list of upcoming videos! Thanks!

[@akshatmukundam974]

Hello madam, nice explanation. If I have a friend who is so bad tempered that I don't want to visit him anymore,what should I use: He is too grumpy to visit/ He is too grumpy to be visited.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Akshat, I would say the first sentence is better. I hope that helps!

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Thanks a million😍 I have been struggling with intensifiers till now😅 This lesson is absolutely amazing😘♥️🫶🏻

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[@DungNguyen-yl9ru]

What does the intensifier "bloody" as in bloody hell mean? I see a lot of that usage in movies.

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Hi Dung, that is actually a swear word!

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@@oxfordenglishnow I see. That's good to know. Thx.

[@MukeshKumar-yy3ce]

Ma'am in my syllabus there is emphasisers what is that ?

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Emphasisers" is likely a term referring to elements or techniques used to emphasize certain points or concepts within a subject or discipline.

[@akshatmukundam974]

Hello madam, hope you are fine. I have a question "Of all the movies I have watched so far, this movie is the best, which other movies are as nothing compared to" and " He has already befriended Joey, who no other boy in the college can hold a candle to" . Are these sentences grammatically correct and do they make sense?

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Hi Akshat, "Of all the movies I have watched so far, this movie is the best." Your sentence works up until this point but after that is not correct. Maybe you could say, "Other movies are nothing in comparison." The second sentence is grammatically correct and makes sense. I hope that helps! See you soon, Akshat!

[@bahiaanis331]

It's very, really, quite, pretty somewhat, mildly long day => moderate strength

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Bahia, Well done, some great ideas! It is a really long day, it is quite a long day, it is somewhat a long day, it is a mildly long day. I hope that helps!

[@mariamkinen8036]

It was an incredibly long day. It was a pretty' long day . It was not a long day at all, at work today.

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Hi Maria, excellent! Well done!

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[@linda-fw6nx]

Hi again, teacher. are these sentences correct and have same meaning? 1) Jack is totally insane. 2) Jack is totally an insane guy.

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Hi lin da, For sentence 2 I would say, Jack is a totally insane guy, is better. And they both mean the same. I hope that helps!

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[@aishaa7869]

It was an extremely long day It was a fairly long day It was quite a long day

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Well done Aisha, great sentences!

[@jeangermain4391]

It was a so long day.It was a very long day. It was a rather long day

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Hi Jean, you would say, it was such a long day. What about using a more interesting intensifier than very? It was an incredibly long day!

[@yoyobakr709]

it was very or really long day

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Well done!

[@stevehidalgo1107]

What is the best option in this sentence? He is somewhat less confident due to the injured he got in a robbery. He is somewhat less confident because of the injuries he got in a robbery.

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The second option is better and more grammatically correct: "He is somewhat less confident because of the injuries he got in a robbery." This sentence uses "because of" to indicate the cause of his decreased confidence and also corrects the grammatical error in the original sentence.

[@akshatmukundam974]

Hello, Wishing you a delightful Christmas 🎄. Please correct this sentence," Of all the women in each country, the women in this country are among the most famous"

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Hi Akshat, wishing you a Happy New Year! Your sentence is correct. 😊

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@@oxfordenglishnow thanks madam and wishing you the same.

[@zeeshanstoryman7952]

It was a really long day

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Oh dear. Take a break! Well done for the sentence!

[@bahiaanis331]

It was insanely long day It was quite long day It was so long day

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Bahia, Well done, but don't forget the article. It was an insanely long day, it was quite a long day, it was such a long day. For a downtoner, how about it was a fairly long day?

[@bahiaanis331]

@@oxfordenglishnow thank you so much

[@bahiaanis331]

It's fairly ,rather, quite long journey => downtfair

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Bahia, It's a fairly long journey. It is rather a long journey. It is quite a long journey. I hope that helps!

[@julianaasvargas]

It was a long day = It was a particularly long day / it was a pretty long day / it was a quite long day/

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Great sentences! Well done!

[@jeanywafumilena5142]

It was a long day - It was an absolutely long day - It was a very long day - It was a fairly long day Is it correct?😄

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi Jeany, I wouldn't use absolutely. It would be better to say, "It was a really or extremely long day." Very ( a bit lighter) and fairly ( even light) work. I hope that helps. 😊

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Thankyou so much

[@mariamkinen8036]

Weak adjectives etc.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Yes, I included strong adjectives but could have included weak ones too.

[@mariamkinen8036]

Oxford English Now gradable n ungradable adjectives . Could u expand in this subject? Thanks💕