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ADVERBS, +, Bad Good Nice Quick, Real Really Too Pretty Quite Very…

- - - - I am almost positive she borrowed that off Barbie!
        
        Managers must be able to price their services reasonably accurately for trading purposes.
  - - - I think she'll be married shortly.
        
        Possibly the church tolerated outside unions unofficially.
- - - - Well
        
        Too
        
        Rather
        
        Quite
        
        Soon
        
        Here
  - - - Anyway (any + way)
        
        Nowhere (no + where)
        
        Heretofore (here + to + fore)
  - - - -ly (for adjectives)
        
        Jollily
        
        Fatherly
      - -wise (for nouns)
        
        Piecewise
      - -ward(s) (for nouns and prepositions)
        
        Homewards
        
        Seawards
  - - - Of course
        
        Kind of
        
        At last
- - - - Before long
        
        Since then
        
        Under there
        
        From above
  - - - Add information (time, manner or time) about the action or state described in the clause.
        
        He took it in slowly but uncomprehedingly.
    - - Convey the speaker/writer's assessment of the proposition.
        
        His book undoubtedly fills a need.
    - - Connect stretches of text.
        
        (...). Therefore, (...)
  - - - Modifier of predeterminer
        
        ...about half...
      - Modifier of pronoun
        
        ...almost nobody...
      - Modifier of prepositional phrase
        
        ...well into their seventies...
      - Modifier of particle of phrasal verb
        
        ...right up...
      - Modifier of numeral
        
        ...approximately 250...
      - Modifier of measuremen expressions
        
        ...roughly one quarter to one third...
      - Modifier of noun phrase
        
        ...quite a surprise...
  - - - Pretty/so/very/too much
        
        Pretty/really/very well
        
        Right now
        
        Much better/more
        
        Right here/there
        
        Pretty soon
  - - - A: What you could afford you had.
        B: Exactly. Exactly.
        
        Really ?
        
        Seriously ?
  - - - Rather partial
        
        Horribly sad
        
        Slightly larger
        
        Fat enough
        
        Long ago
        
        Rich nutritionally
      - Adverb + Adjective combinations
        
        Conversation
        (vague reference)
        
        Degree adverb + Adjective
        
        Academic prose
        (statistical references)
        
        Degree adverbs + Specific qualities adjectives
- - - - *Automatically she backed away.*
        
        But sentiment recovered quickly.
        
        You can run fast but not here.
  - - - Choices among degree adverbs as modifiers
        
        Conversation
        (informal amplifiers)
        
        Bloody
        
        Damn
        
        Totally
        
        Absolutely
        
        Real
        
        Really
        
        Very
        
        So
        
        Academic prose
        (formal amplifiers)
        
        Extremely
        
        Highly
        
        Entirely
        
        Fully
        
        Very
        
        So
      - Amplifiers/intensifiers
        
        Degrees on a scale
        
        More
        
        Very
        
        So
        
        Extremely
        
        Endpoint on a scale
        
        Totally
        
        Absolutely
        
        Completely
        
        Quite
        
        Exclamatory sentences
        
        How
        
        Lose literal meaning
        
        Awfully safe.
        
        Perfectly awful.
        
        Dead serious.
      - Diminishers/downtoners
        
        Degrees on a scale
        
        Less
        
        Slightly
        
        Somewhat
        
        Rather
        
        Quite
        
        Almost
        
        Nearly
        
        Pretty
        
        Far from
  - - - She doesn't say go away very much now. (Position)
        
        She always eats the onion. (Frequency)
        
        She will remain a happy memory with us always. (Duration)
        
        When they took the old one out it was already in pieces. (Relationship)
  - - - Too
        
        Also
  - - - He loves it there. (Position)
        
        He can't have gone far.(Distance)
        
        It hopped backward. (Direction)
  - - - Show levels of certainty or doubt
        
        Probably
      - Comment on the reality or actuality of a proposition
        
        Actually
      - Show that a proposition is based on some evidence without specifying it
        
        Reportedly
      - Show the limitations on a proposition
        
        Tipically
      - Convey imprecision (hedges)
        
        Kind of
        
        Sort of
        
        Like
        
        About
        
        Nearly
    - - Express a speaker/writer's emotional attitude toward a proposition
        
        Unfortunately
        
        Surprisingly
    - - Tell something about the speaker's manner of speaking
        
        Honestly
        
        Frankly
        
        Quite simply
  - - - Thus
        
        However
  - - - Only
        
        Especially